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Columbia University's Barnard College (for women) has had only three deans in 57 years, and it took its cautious time about picking a fourth. Ever since Dean Virginia Gildersleeve decided to quit Barnard (TIME, Dec. 10, 1945), faculty and trustees have been weeding out 60 candidates. Last week the weeding was over, and almost in its own backyard Barnard had found a new dean: Dr. Millicent Carey Mclntosh...
...backstroking staff is whether Dave Murray, outstanding member, will graduate in February. "To lose him," the coach considers, "would be like starting football without Gannon." A versatile fellow with landlubber abilities, Murray holds the national record in the Javelin throw with 210 feet. In the meantime Bob Barnard is sure to see backstroking duties...
...musical excellence of Goldovsky's effort also suffered somewhat from the mediocrity of several of his singers. Robert Gay and Francis Barnard in the leading male roles of the Count and Figaro, respectively, lacked both the force and training essential to good Mozartean baritones. Luigi Vellucci, however, surprised with superb performances in two roles, the comic ones of Basilio and Curzio...
Able, scholarly Laurence Duggan, 41, former chief of the State Department's Division of the American Republics, had been chosen for the $15,000 job, not by his father but by a special committee (among the members: CBS Vice President Edward R. Murrow, Barnard's Dean Virginia Gildersleeve). Duggan pere attended the meetings as secretary, was chosen to notify his successor. Larry was afraid his father had railroaded his appointment. Said he: "Dad, I'd rather hear about it from someone else...
Unlike our editors, who came from all over the U.S., a majority of TIME's researchers grew up in the Eastern states and abroad. Naturally, the colleges and universities they went to (85% got degrees) are largely Eastern -Vassar, Smith, Barnard, Skidmore, etc. Those educated in other countries list the universities of Geneva, Toronto, British Columbia, and Istanbul's Robert College. About a fourth of them went on to graduate school...