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Macalester's scholarships are in the second category. They are sponsored by the Reader's Digest Foundation, which picks its winners only from finalists who want to go to Macalester. In N.M.S.'s seven-year history, all of the Digest Foundation's 86 scholarships have been for Macalester. In some years, half of all winners in Minnesota have thus chosen Macalester. This year only one of Macalester's 20 winners is un-Digested-a Minnesota lad who crept in on an IBM scholarship...
Unforgettable Character. All this is due to the beneficence of Macalester's Most Unforgettable Character, Reader's Digest Founder-Editor DeWitt Wallace. Wallace, 72, was born at tiny Macalester four years after it opened in 1885. His father, Dr. James Wallace, a Presbyterian preacher and a Greek scholar, was president for a dozen years, and saved the place from bankruptcy. Wallace graduated from neither Macalester nor the University of California, where he later put in a couple of years. But he has poured money into Macalester ever since he got rich selling homily grits...
...doing it over the week-end in a nearby motel. Mary Ellen we learn, suddenly matures, and spends her forced leave of absence in Paris, working for UNESCO. This sudden maturity represents one of the great miracles of our era, and it will be a long time before any reader forgets the courage and integrity of little Mary Ellen...
...solemn. The scales of justice are part of his equipment, of course, but they are a lighter model than the vast, slow-swinging mechanism that burdens Kazin. After following Jarrell's ardent and scholarly puffs for the short stories of Kipling or the poems of Eleanor Taylor, the reader feels that life will not be supportable without these stories or these poems. Kazin's approval of a writer, however well thought out, inspires the sort of emotion that one feels on hearing that the World Bank is doing an excellent...
...frequent reader of the Michigan University paper and a former CRIMSON editor, Riesman conceded that he was "not unaware of all the ambiguities, misunderstandings, and messes that can cloud the relation of a student newspaper to its various constituencies inside and outside the university...