University of Virginia Library

Personalities Of The Week

By DAVID RITCHIE

Mr. Eddie Rickenbacker —

Who
died this last Monday in a
Swiss hospital following a heart
attack. The 83-year-old Mr.
Rickenbacker had served as
Pershing's chauffeur
(supposedly his driving scared
the General into having
Rickenbacker shipped off to
the Air Corps), World War I
ace, head of Eastern Airlines,
and model for an Al Capp
creation. Above all else, he was
that rarity, a popular American
hero who won fame by doing
something constructive.

Gov. Linwood Holton —

Who this week startled us by
admitting that a distaff ghost is
haunting the Executive
Mansion in Richmond, and
that he does not plan to have
the petite phantom exorcised
because she fits in nicely with
the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
furniture Mr. Holton is
having moved into the
Mansion. It's nice to know the
Gothic spirit is alive and well in
Richmond.

Mr. Norman Mailer —

Who is
seen above hiding behind 1,857
definitions of "plagiarism,"
following publication of his
new opus on Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn, a high-priced tome
with which one could easily
stun a longshoreman, makes us
wonder why Norman the
Fearless doesn't leave the dead
to rest in pace and stick to
maligning the living, who can
at least retaliate.

Mr. H.D. Murdock —

Who, for
the edification of upcoming
first-year students, will be
teaching a ten-hour course
titled "Making It In College,"
July 30 through August 4 at
the Rt. 29 North Y.M.C.A. We
hope the classes give students
some hints about what to do
when the hall jock threatens
you with bloody death, when
you draw a Jesus freak for a
counselor, when your
roommate turns nudist, when