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...Mark Lapper, 58, chairman of the board of the Yorkshire area of Britain's nationalized electricity industry, always wanted a room with a view. He and his staff saw no reason why working folk should labor in smoky towns, if they could do their jobs equally well in nicer surroundings. Especially if the working folk were Colonel Lapper...
...really nice to hear football coaches, college presidents, and athletic directors all over the country loudly thumping their chests and singing the praises of football de-emphasis in a high falsetto voice. It's even nicer when they do something constructive about it. But it's awfully hard to evaluate a move like Yale's abolition of spring practice, which its sponsors say is a great symbol of de-emphasis, but which seems to bear little relation to the factors underlying the current scandalous football situation...
Whether or not abandoning spring practice is a good idea raises an oven nicer question. The primary purpose of spring practice is to develop available material and to find out what is most promising on the freshman squad. This means that at schools where professionalism is a problem, spring practice will be fairly superfluous since the material is pretty slick to begin with. Meanwhile colleges such as Harvard, which depend on developing unpolished material to attain even respectability, will lose the advantages springtime drill has to offer...
...columns, Dirks wrote about Camano's little frame church and two of the people who kept it going-Sunday-school Teacher Mrs. Mertie Best ("a saint in a house dress") and Pastor Walter Jerome Wheeler. "How much nicer and more convenient it would be, say," he wrote, "if a church were located closer at hand. Perhaps in a grove of hemlocl where the cleared land descends toward the blue channel water; somewhere, wher the kindly Sunday-school teacher would not have so far to go . . . Last night th Farmer [Dirks] could contain himself m longer. He visited Mr. Wheeler...
...spectacular rise, Dagmar says simply, "This summer is nicer than last summer." One of the things that make it nicer is a penthouse with a fine view of Central Park and a great many empty bookshelves. "I don't want to learn anything now," says Dagmar, explaining the absence of books. "If this is what you get for being dumb, I love it." Her success has also paid for a secretarial course for her sister, a college education for her brother, a new groom house for her parents in Huntington...