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...Mold & Wilt. A former Tennessee schoolteacher who got a Ph.D. from Harvard and became associate director of the Rockefeller-founded General Education Board. Edens has kept his two campuses (Gothic for men, Georgian for women) on a steady, upward course. He runs one of the top forestry schools in the nation, one of the ranking medical schools in the South. He has the 13th largest (1,150,000 volumes, 1,550,000 manuscripts) university library in the U.S., and though his law school is still trying to catch up, his flourishing divinity school is one of the South...
...Indian yarn of high-toned rival bordellos, of Mardi gras and cockfights and voodoo worship, spill brilliant color, exotic fragrance and tropical profusion. To be sure, the very things that give House of Flowers its charm and freshness also tend, after a while, to drain them away. For flowers wilt, and scent induces drowsiness...
...pray that in all the deliberations here begun Thou wilt save us from pride of opinion, from intolerance and prejudice, and from lightly ascending any throne of judgment...
This would rule out the possibility of his meeting Barthel, Fred Wilt, Horace Ashenfelter, Fred Dwyer, and Alec Breckenridge, in the special Heptagonal mile, but Bushnell said in New York that he would be at the airport at 8:05 this morning to meet Bannister...
...freshman at Villanova, Breckenridge will join Fred Wilt, Horace Ashenfelter, and Fred Dwyer in an attempt to defeat the 1500-meter Olympic champion Joey Barthel. With Breckenridge added to the field, Barthel may get the competition he needs to break the Soldiers Field mark...