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Farmington has been deluged with not particularly welcome applications ever since Mrs. Kennedy became First Lady. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis S. French, who became headmaster and headmistress in 1954, are holding Farmington's thin, well-read line. Even Caroline Kennedy will not get in unless her grades are good, for although Miss Porter's weighs a girl's ancestry with respect, says Headmaster French, it also searches for bright scholars "who have no connection with the past." But Caroline is undaunted. She reportedly informed her father not long ago that in her White House play school (where...
...Griswold doubted strongly that today's universities fully contribute to "society's moral health." Griswold further broadened his attack to include two old value-defending allies: "The family has become too scared of its children." and "the church too much of a social welfare organization." A thin, well-read line of scholars is not enough to defend the proposition that "in education, the customer isn't always right...
Avery's outspoken intransigence made headlines, but in private he was a well-read, articulate businessman capable of great charm, with a knack for making profit for his companies when all about were losing theirs. The son of a prosperous Michigan lumberman, Avery got his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1894. By 1905, at the age of 31, he was president of U.S. Gypsum. He built it into one of the biggest U.S. building-material suppliers, and, convinced in the late '20's that the U.S. economy was headed for a depression, so prepared...
...sort of Quizzard of Oz, he had also developed Quiz Kids and Stop the Music. Thoughtful, well-read Lou Cowan ran CBS with due regard for public affairs programs (Ed Murrow) and serious drama (Playhouse go), but remained strongly identified in the trade with quiz shows. And the wind that blew him down last week stemmed clearly from the TV scandals. Cowan missed testifying before the Harris subcommittee last month when he developed a thrombophlebitic leg, but told investigators in his hospital room that he left his $64,000 packaging firm seven weeks after the show went...
...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun. must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents...