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Cost of Living. One of the first paragraphers on record was a Louisville, Ky., editor named George D. Prentice. In the mid-19th century Prentice honed his paragraphs into needles to puncture rival editors. In his hands and others, the paragraph took on the quality of wit and humor that characterize it still. One of the best of the later breed was the Indianapolis' News's late, famed Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, who, as Abe Martin, turned out paragraphs by the thousands. "I think some folks are foolish." wrote Kin Hubbard. "to pay what it costs to live...
Also, Nora K. McKeon of Henry House and Chicago, III, History, Cecily Orenstein of McIntire House and Great Neck, N.Y., Fine Arts, Nancy B. N. Rash of Holmes Hall and Louisville, Ky., Fine Arts, Ann C. Richards of Warner House and New York City, Fine Arts, Joan C. Rigney of Everett House and Newburyport, Social Relations, Julie Roy of Briggs Hall and Boston, History and literature, Mrs. Anita B. Van vector of Cambridge, English, and Kathryn L. Voelker of Moors Hall and Columbus, Ohio, Biology...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa today announced the Senior Sixteen for the Class of 1962. The are: Mitchell H. Gail, Leverett and Lexington, Ky., Biochemical Sciences; David I Lieberman, Lowell and South Orange, N. J., Mathematics; Bishop C. Hunt, Jr., Eliot and Boston, History and Literature; Paul R. Chernoff, Lowell and Philadelphia, Mathematics; Matthew D. Edel, Leverett and Jamaica, N.Y., History; Carl D. Elligers, Lowell and Brooklyn, Government; and Rodney H. Merrill, Lowell and Idaho Falls, Idaho, History and Literature...
Just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati glow the red lights of Newport, Ky. (pop. 30,000), a venerable sin center and hardly a place where a reformer is likely to succeed. But last week a reformer was elected sheriff of Campbell County, which includes Newport. He is George Ratterman. 35, former Notre Dame and Cleveland Browns quarterback, now a television commentator for American Football League games...
...Most of the push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive at solutions...