"Curly" Up

In Philadelphia bankers become college presidents. The head of Virginia's College of William & Mary, John Stewart Bryan, is a newspaper publisher. Last week the University of Maryland, on the highway between Baltimore and Washington, found a new president in its long-time football coach, fuzzy-haired Harry Clifton Byrd, 47.

A member of Virginia's famed Byrd family but born on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, "Curly" Byrd played and later coached football for his university when it was plain Maryland Agricultural College. Between seasons he rose to be assistant to the president and then vice president. He has long done many of his alma mater's political chores, an experience which should prove helpful. The board of regents fired his predecessor, Raymond Allen Pearson, last July for failing to wangle larger appropriations from the State Legislature.

*Dr. Beury had first proffered a Doctorate of Laws. Dr. Roosevelt, many times an LL.D. asked him instead for the Doctorate of Jurisprudence, his first.

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