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...week, in a symbolic scene, Presidential Hopeful Averell Harriman and Presidential Hopeful Adlai Stevenson met at Stevenson's Libertyville (Ill.) farm, sat on white wicker chairs and gazed around at the smooth lawns. In a tone that meant he was merely being polite, Ave murmured: "Your grass is greener than mine." Adlai said nothing; he just chuckled...
Emphasizing that he "could not be greener," Elder pointed out that his problem "is to turn out first rate scholars in their fields. I am interested in getting quality not quantity," he stated. Under such a policy, elder said he could not conceive of increasing present enrollment figures. To maintain the desired high standards even may "involve some contraction," he added...
...balance the greener men on the boat Wilde is counting on two of his lighter oars, Dick Timpson and Barry Bingham. Neither has rowed on a varsity boat before, but Timpson, who will start at three, competed for Eton and rowed with Cabot as a freshman last spring. Bingham, like Wilde, is one of the University's best single scullars and raced against Olympic champion Johnny Kelley in a double at the American Henley Regatta in Philadelphia last spring...
...Other lobbyists are James P. Kem of Missouri, Fred Hartley Jr. of the Taft-Hartley Act, Scott Lucas of Illinois. Gerald P. Nye is now the president of a records-management and microfilm company, hasn't been in North Dakota in years. Joe Ball has left Minnesota for greener pastures in Manhattan, where he is an official of a steamship agency...
Author Thompson has the courage of his convictions. But before they reach the final, melodramatic pages, his readers may long for Graham Greener pastures: they must listen to page upon page of second-rate smart talk on the one hand and chummy religious matter on the other. The Dove with the Bough of Olive is a brave and interesting try, but it seems to prove that any author who attempts to mix the frivolities of Belgravia with the profundities of Heaven is in mortal danger of going straight to Hollywood...