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...average Southerner considers himself somehow different and feels a natural reluctance to force himself into a non-Southern atmosphere. Consequently, while the Southerner may not depreciate the value of going to schools outside his region, he is likely to be content with attending "The Princeton of the South"--Vanderbilt University--or a similar school with a good reputation and Eastern educational influences. This tendency is heightened by the fact that so much effort has been placed upon developing the South as a region...
...Bench: Good Democrat Brennan was appointed (by Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll) to New Jersey Superior Court in 1949 (appellate and trial divisions), then in 1952 to the State Supreme Court. He is a protégé of New Jersey's leonine Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt (TIME, Feb. 21, 1955), is hardworking, respected by lawyers, who have often found themselves discomfited because Brennan "sometimes catches you off guard." His opinions are clear, thoughtful, moderate; his mind is quick and sharp. As chairman of a New Jersey committee on calendar control and pretrial conference procedure, he helped give the state...
...Brennan Jr., 50, a Roman Catholic (the first on the court since Frank Murphy) and lifelong Democrat (one of six). More important, Brennan is a jurist of solid experience and reputation (see box), was recommended for the job by New Jersey's able Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and will be-with Justice Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan-one of the three Supreme Court Justices with bench experience prior to appointment...
Prime mover behind the new museum is the recently widowed Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, 64, who thought that the first week's warm reception was a good indication of "what a big need the museum is going to fill." Richly endowed with cash* and energy. Craftswoman Webb started her crusade for handicrafts back in the Depression '305 as a home-based relief project, later founded the nonprofit American Craftsmen's Council, which started its own craft training school (now part of Rochester Institute of Technology), its own magazine (Craft Horizons; circ. 15,000), and Manhattan's America...
Similarly, the leader of the Federation for Constitutional Government in Tennessee--that state's version of the Citizens Council--is Donald Davidson, professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Davidson spends his summers teaching at Bread Loaf in Vermont. He staunchly contends that there are "intelligent men in control of the Citizens Councils. And this is very good, since, if they weren't those advocating violence would...