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Smelser is a National Scholar, and was among the eight juniors elected to PhiBeta Kappa last year. He won the Edwards Whittaker Prize in his freshman year, and as a sophomore was awarded the Jacob Wendell Prize Scholarship...
...Alpha Kappa girls at the University of Illinois almost decided against nominating a candidate for Homecoming Queen, the highest student social honor. "Why waste our time?" was their argument. Alpha Kappa is a Negro sorority...
Hope, however, prevailed, and Alpha Kappa nominated Clarice Clotilde Davis. Clarice won, the first Negro girl to receive this honor at a predominantly white U.S. university.* Said she: "I know that it won't be me standing there. It is a symbol of something we've always worked for... Our school has had the reputation of being the most prejudiced of all the Big Ten schools. Now all these impressions are broken. I'm thrilled." Last week at Homecoming, Clarice was crowned by Charles Studley, captain of Illinois' topflight football team. Said she: "Maybe some voted...
...Ariane Allen Ross asked a Manhattan court for separation and alimony from craggy Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker. His "mental cruelty," charged Mrs. Ross, who graduated from college a Phi Beta Kappa at 17, took several turns. Among them: calling her a "stupid, mediocre, banal bore." Furthermore, he refused to take her on social calls because he said her "stupidity, boring chatter and lack of poise embarrassed him and injured his reputation...
...This year, Freeman, an extremely well-qualified candidate, does not have enough money of his own to wage a successful campaign and the CCA has put up the necessary funds to allow Freeman to run. Then too, there is Crane himself, a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Amory calls him the "best qualified mayor in the United States...