Word: england
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is actively involved in an effort to secure qualified Negro students, he continued, and is "even paying to prepare several to enter the college by sending them to preparatory schools in New England. To my knowledge, the only quota or limit placed upon a Negro's entry into Harvard is found in the low economic status of Negroes generally and in the poor educational facilities available to many Negroes...
Terence Hawkes, of University College in Cardiff, England, leveled the charge in a letter to the Guardian's editors. "I think it is still true to say that Harvard and many other 'Ivy League' colleges select their students on the fundamentally undemocratic and manifestly illegal basis of 'quota.'" Hawkes wrote. "Only a certain number of Jewish and Negro student are admitted each year, regardless of academic prowess...
Silent Night, Lonely Night (by Robert Anderson) tells of two people in a New England inn on Christmas Eve. Strangers in adjacent rooms-Barbara Bel Geddes has a son in a prep-school infirmary near by, Henry Fonda a wife in a mental sanitarium up the hill-they come together out of loneliness, are at first trivially autobiographical, then more and more confidingly so. They have a drink with newlyweds, look back on marriage that has come to grief, resist pity and show twinges of self-pity, talk of love and resist sex. The woman, it turns...
Married. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 54, greying playboy son of Britain's World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field; and Diane Kirk, 18, London model; he for the fourth time, she for the first, in Midhurst, England...
...Once Upon a Christmas Tree (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A fantasy by Paul Gallico about 13 orphans who spend Christ mas in a New England town. With Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Patty (Miracle Worker) Duke. Color...