Word: florian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ladles, Gentlemen & Scholars. Braithwaite had his own racial bitterness to overcome on that first day as he sat listening to Headmaster Alexander Florian talk of Greenslade's children. The school allowed no punishment of a child. Most of them were from impoverished homes, said the headmaster, and "a child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling." Recalls Braithwaite...
Died. Octavus Roy Cohen, 67, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and magazine writer, best known for his pre-World War II Saturday Evening Post short stories about happy-go-lucky, heavy-dialect Southern Negroes such as Florian Slappey, Lawyer Evans Chew, Marshmallow Jeepers and Epic Peters; following a stroke, in Los Angeles. Cohen also wrote for the early Amos 'n' Andy radio series...
Married. Marie Dionne, 24, one of four survivors of the famed Canadian quintuplets, who in 1953 entered a convent to become a nun, but left before taking her permanent vows; and Florian Houle, 38, onetime student for the priesthood, and now a clerk at the Quebec Superior Court; in Montreal. Of the living quints, only Yvonne is now unmarried...
Observer McCarthy early admits that in Venice, appearance is reality: "The tourist Venice is Venice: the gondolas, the sunsets, the changing light, Florian's, Quadri's, Torcello, Harry's Bar, Murano, Burano, the pigeons, the glass beads, the vaporetto. Venice is a folding picture-postcard of itself." But Tourist McCarthy is no ordinary tourist. Whether she is discussing the merits of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini, Giorgione, or building up a rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp...
...service commemorating the 108th anniversary of the Naval Chaplain Corps will be held today at noon in Andover Chapel at the Divinity School, Lt. Comdr. Florian W. Cassady will bring the message...