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Most smaller colleges now try to attract students from a wider geographic area, notably from the big Eastern cities and suburbs. Says Kalamazoo's Princeton-educated President Weimer K. Hicks: "The sooner people in the East lose their provincial outlook on college education, the sooner we can ease up the so-called admissions jam." Pittsburgh's Chatham College prides itself on nurturing diversity and "intelligent nonconformity" among students; President Edward D. Eddy Jr. suggests that a student candidate's having backed some "unpopular but worthwhile cause" is a good qualification for admission...
Gable's smile spread wider than a river in flood-until Carole Lombard was killed in an air crash during the early months of World War II. Soon afterward he en listed in the Army Air Forces, flew combat missions in B-17s out of Peterborough, England, functioning as both the head of an aerial film unit and as a turret gunner...
...multicolored "Yankee shirts" selling for 28?, judiciously fingered other broni waawu-which literally means the "white man has died." The expression was coined after World War II for used clothes, then chiefly Army surplus, when the natives assumed secondhand garments had belonged to dead soldiers. It has even wider applications today...
...education has been perverted into 'life adjustment.' What must be revived is: experiment to learn theory, permissiveness in all animal behavior, emphasis on individual differences, taking youth seriously as an age in itself, community of youth and adult minimizing "authority," and emphasis in the curriculum of real problems of wider society...
...exhibition is Karsh's gallery of greatness-portraits of the 74 statesmen, artists, poets, scientists and philosophers, from the legions he has photographed, whom Karsh considers most qualified by their "concern and love for fellowman." He winnowed the number from his own wider selection of 96 world leaders in his best-selling (41,000 copies at $17.50) Portraits of Greatness, which was published last winter. Sir Winston Churchill alone still appears twice-in the celebrated 1942 defiant portrait that Karsh achieved by audaciously snitching the grumpy Churchill's cigar from his mouth, and in a 1955 elder statesman...