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When Political Scientist Benjamin Fletcher Wright of Harvard University was appointed president of Smith College (TIME, March 21), he had a reservation: he was afraid he did not know enough about women's education. "I've got to do some homework," said he. Last week at his inauguration (which coincided with Smith's 75th anniversary celebration), President Wright showed how far his homework had taken him. He jumped right into the biggest question of all: What should women be educated...
When the telephone rang in the six-room walkup apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Cohen of The Bronx, Mrs. Cohen, a 42-year-old grandmother, lifted the receiver. Carefully she answered the three questions put to her by the man at the other end of the line. At that point, Mrs. Cohen walked into pandemonium. She had hit the $28,000 jackpot on CBS's Sing It Again giveaway program...
Friends and neighbors began piling in and the phone rang without stopping. The Cohens' four daughters, two of whom are married, were jubilant. Benjamin Cohen, a laundry manager, and his wife sat in stunned silence for a while, scarcely able to believe their good luck on that fine evening last June...
President Conant spoke yesterday at the installation of Benjamin F. Wright as president of Smith College and defined a good adminstrator as "a man who has a worried look--on his assistant's face...
When Professor Benjamin Wright, inaugurated yesterday as President of Smith College, decided to leave Harvard last year there were a lot of disappointed people in Cambridge. They already knew what the Smith selection committee had found out--that Professor Wright was a remarkable administrator, a fine teacher, and a man who had a real insight into educational problems...