Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quad sounds like a Harvard House, but no--a House would not do for Princeton. In the quad there will be no Master, no Senior Tutor, almost no faculty members, no academic life of its own. "We plan a faculty to student ratio of 1:75," says Dean William D'O. Lippincott. The three bachelor faculty members who are chosen to live in the quad will have "no decentralized academic or disciplinary responsibilities," the Dean adds. "They will just be there...
...William A. Rusher '48, publisher of the conservative journal National Review, will speak on the topic "Is Nixon worth It?" in the Winthrop Senior Common Room at 7:30 p.m. tonight...
...William A. Blount, 61, executive vice president of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., Inc., was appointed president succeeding Benjamin F. Few, who is retiring under a mandatory retirement plan. Varsity center on the 1919 University of North Carolina football team, Blount joined Liggett & Myers in 1923, became superintendent of the Durham factory in 1925, a vice president in 1943. ¶ Hugh William Close Jr., 39, son-in-law and assistant to the late Elliott White Springs (TIME, Oct. 26), was elected president of the Springs Cotton Mills (1958 net sales: approximately $165 million). Close joined Springs Mills, Inc. as a sample...
...MANSION (436 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...
...literature registers a milestone this week: Flem Snopes is dead. His death in The Mansion closes a William Faulkner trilogy that stands alone in U.S. writing for its wild, weird comedy, its savage indictment of rapacity and greed, its haughty indifference to the reader's bewilderment as he tries to follow some of the most obscurely motivated characters in any literature. The Hamlet (TIME, April i, 1940) and The Town (TIME, May 6, 1957) proved that the Snopeses were never far from Faulkner's mind even as he was writing other books that...