Established under the will of the late Bacteriologist William A. Hinton, the first Negro professor at Harvard University: a scholarship fund of nearly $75,000 to be named in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, in recognition of Ike's accomplishments "toward the acceptance of the principle of equal opportunity for all." Responded Eisenhower, when he heard of the fund:; "I cannot recall having been given a personal distinction that has touched me more deeply."
"Even the Poles have been wallowing in God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road" said Novelist Erskine Caldwell, 58, on his way to tour Warsaw and collect some 100,000 zlotys (about $4,200) in royalties, which he must spend in Poland. While his books on the seamy side of Southern life have sold 62 million copies (mostly in paperbacks) around the world, and are bestsellers in Communist countries, Caldwell mused sadly on the low state of his reputation at home. "I'm not read very much in the South," he said, "because they are very touchy about what they regard as unkind criticism. And I'm not thought much of in the North either." But he had no apologies for his popularity abroad. "Russians and Europeans get a less erroneous image of America from my books than they do from American films about a mink-penthouse-Cadillac society."
Going on sale this week: a 4¢ commemorative postage stamp honoring the late Dag Hammarslcjold.
What does the well-dressed skater wear over her leotard this year? Leopard, of course, but not any old spotted cat. On the outdoor skating rink of Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza, raven-haired Model Diane Conlon, 17, fetchingly demonstrated a pale, shaggy snow leopard from the icy reaches of Nepal. And for almost any girl, whether she can skate or not, Diane's pretty partners, modeling for the kick-off campaign of New York's United Hospital Fund, showed that Cambodian tiger, white mink and red nutria also cut the ice.
All mention of his exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, was already deleted from the official history of the state's executive mansion. Now New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54, blue-penciled the 21-word last paragraph from his official biography in the revised edition of the Legislative Manual and New York Red Book, thereby eliminating all reference to the fact that he was ever married, had five children, and is a grandfather eight times over.