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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1964
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont.
The New York City school system will drop the I Q test next fall amid claims the test favors middle class white students and harms minority and underprivileged youths. An achievement test will replace it to better assess pupil strengths and weaknesses alongside reading assessments.
Brooklyn Presbyterian minister Rev. William Glenesk plans to distribute copies of Fanny Hill to his congregation next Sunday to protest censorship. He asserts the book should not be banned and that freedom of the press includes personal choice. The piece contrasts moral duty with state censorship and notes uncertainty about effect on church members and public reaction.
Washington editorial assesses Lyndon B. Johnson’s early presidency calling the first 100 days unparalleled in American life. It notes Johnson’s energy, rapid action, and use of media to reassure the public while questions linger on the impact of the tax bill and potential Congress-driven legislation.
Hal Boyle surveys shifting American work life and public affairs. He notes women enter cities, grow purchasing power in life insurance, and links debates over civil rights and Vietnam to presidential leadership and international aid policy.
A review of Alice Tisdale Hobart’s final book The Innocent Dreamers traces China's path to communism from the Opium War through Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, comparing Western inaction and Soviet influence to Mao's rise. It frames Mao as a Robin Hood figure to peasants, marshaling support in Yenan, and notes the purge of landlords and intellectuals as the country becomes closed under his rule. The piece casts Hobart as a novelist conveying history’s currents through a multiethnic family saga.
In a snow filled Philadelphia inn Governor Nelson Rockefeller meets Glen Krause head of Phillips Exeter Academy art department. Rockefeller recalls Michael Rockefeller a painter who died in 1961 while seeking primitive sculptures in New Guinea. The encounter underscores the Rockefeller family's enduring prominence and public service.
Clarence Budington Kelland died February 19 at 82 leaving more than 66 novels and 200 short stories. The Brattleboro Reformer notes his brief Wilmington residence where he joined Ludington Woodenware Co and popularized Scattergood Baines from a local resident.
Kelland, long allied with Sen. Barry Goldwater, moved to Arizona about 25 years ago retaining his Vermont conservatism. A former Republican national committee man for Arizona until 1956, his prolific writing earned him wealth. His fame grew with works like Scattergood Baines, a character aiding his rise.
Humorist Allan Kalmus recalls a New York bride who told her husband she wants a new sports car so she can hear the patter of tiny Fiat. The remark appears in John G. Fuller’s Saturday Review excerpt.
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