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...tutorials, athletics) except beds. Leighton thinks Harvard still "needs a lot of fixing." But he has done more than his share, and now he says: "I'm going to retire, period." Antioch's W. Boyd Alexander, 65, was nominally vice president and dean of faculty at the offbeat Ohio school (founded by Horace Mann), where students alternate between regular classwork and jobs far off campus. In fact, he was Antioch's "hidden president" for nearly three decades-the man who kept the academic fireworks safe and sane. Alexander began as a carpenter, switched to teaching math...
...P.T.A. meetings. Some also act as ticket brokers for plays or ball games; the Bank of Indiana in Gary books plane and hotel reservations anywhere in the world for its customers, has outdoor "walkup windows" to serve them. New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. has started an offbeat radio and TV advertising campaign to attract more customers, is offering the fashion-conscious checkbooks whose covers come in "currency green," "ingot gold," "bond beige" or simulated cobra and leopard...
Died. Edgar Clyde ("Skinnay") Ennis Jr., 55, popular bandleader of the jive-and-jump era, a product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...
Terming his company "more courageous" than existing television stations, Gardner said it would feature "offbeat subjects--the things that other stations don't dare to show...
...pair of stars acting for the satisfaction of it, an offbeat Manhattan debut by a new talent, a musty, reclaimed grind house-Tiger-Typists (see col. 1) is theater of the kind that makes off-Broadway an absentee culture hero in conversation pits from Kansas City to Bombay...