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If he cannot market his personality, the scholar can devote himself to "the cult of tidying up," answering phone calls in the office and writing the endless letters of recommendation which, Hughes confided, "represent a serious drain on one's stock of adjectives."
Died. Samuel Bayard Colgate, 65, president (1933-38) and chairman (1938-52) of Colgate-Palmolive Co., great-grandson of the toothpaste company's founder, who took over the top job when sales were sliding after a merger with soapmaker Palmolive-Peet n 1928, cut costs, and scrubbed up the...
The program may also lead, purely incidentally, to an even greater revolution in undergraduate instruction. Instructors and Assistant Professors now complain that the energy and talent they devote to teaching undergraduates do nothing to advance them professionally. Under the new system, teaching ability will influence professional advancement at two important...
With a minimum of four months to go before a heavyweight title fight, the division has settled into stagnation. Even Cash is unusually quiet: he has evidently decided to devote his full attention to avoiding another fight before Liston consents to meet him. With his undefeated record Cassiue is as...
Avoiding or at least postponing military service has become a subtle collegiate art, and for years it has been practised despite grim Selective Service warnings. Yet, each year the maze of Selective Service regulations becomes a little more difficult to negotiate. Policies change, rules are added, and the whims of...