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Died. Alva Johnston, 62, oldtime reporter (The New York Times and Herald Tribune), one of the best magazine writers (The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post), contemporary biographer (The Great Goldwyn; The Case of Erie Stanley Gardner), 1922 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for popularizing the esoteric proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Bronxville...
Dean Gordon Johnston of the University of Denver College of Law had heard too many lawyers make the same complaint : the law school graduates who came to them for jobs did not seem to know either spelling or grammar. Dean Johnston decided that Denver graduates would be different, this year gave incoming students a special test. Last week he announced the results: half the class, including one Phi Beta Kappa, had flunked. Samples of examination answers...
...phrases as "there is choas," "property subject to alienment," and "this report is purported to xplain." One student brashly wrote: "More specificly employers are almost unamimous in declaring that among all the college people they hire, very few have a well founded knowledge of the English language." Added Dean Johnston: "Amen...
Yesterday's workout, according to a release prepared before practice by H.A.A. tub-thumper W. Henry Johnston, "emphasized a review and brush up on each position with attention given to fundamentals, mainly blocking and tackling...
Unopposed were Democrats J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas, Walter F. George of Georgia, Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina...