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Minnesota: Buttressed by Democratic-Farmer-Labor backing, Incumbent Eugene J. McCarthy, 48, would be heavily favored over Republican Wheelock Whitney, 38, mayor of the Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata, even without Favorite Son Hubert Humphrey on the national ticket...
...music-leaving none for the day-by-day business of living. The human Beethoven could not add, could not learn the rules of grammar, and could not master his emotions. For a time, his biographers were able to ignore these facts. But in 1866 the first volume of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's great Life appeared, and Beethoven biography has not been the same since...
...generation after Thayer's death, at 80, in 1897, British Critic Ernest Newman set the fashion in psychological evaluation of Beethoven by concluding that he suffered from "morbid sex obsessions" because of his troubles with syphilis. Alexander Wheelock Thayer belonged to a gentler, less analytic age. All he could finally conclude about the man he had spent his life studying was that, take him all in all, his was "a very human nature, one which, if it showed extraordinary strengths, exhibited also extraordinary weaknesses...
...other eight charter members are Wellesley, Northeastern, Simmons, Boston College, Wheelock, Tufts, Emanuel, and M.I.T. Participation by Harvard and Radcliffe in the Council must be approved by the HCUA and RGA respectively. Such approval appears certain...
After receiving this degree, she taught at Wheelock College for two years. But when offered the directorship of Radcliffe's Women's Archives and of the Radcliffe seminar program for adult women in 1959, Mrs. Solomon was glad to return to her alma mater. The Archives include one of the country's most complete collections of the diaries and letters of noted women; Mrs. Solomon enjoys working with the varied scholars who use these documents. "You never know who's going to come in to do research," she says, "and I love the quest for new manuscripts." Mrs. Solomon will...