Word: kaplan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Melvin H. Kaplan '42, Cambridge, Mass...
...College, Buckley Scholarships were awarded to the following: Thomas E. Cotter '40, Pasquale F. Frisoll '40, Jacoh J. Kaplan '40, Paul A. Moylan '40, George Quint '40, Donald T. Regan '40, Roland E. Shaine '40, Ely A. Shamieh '41, Paul K. Stumpf '41, George A. Sullivan '40, Chester J. Dziengielewski '40, and Robert T. Fitzgerald...
Aaron Copland (pronounced Copeland), 39, is the youngest son of a Brooklyn storekeeper who thought his name was Kaplan, until an immigration official wrote it to suit his own ears. Copland is tall, energetic, large-nosed, engagingly toothy. He began studying music at 13. In the early 19205, as a student at Fontainebleau (first pupil of famed Nadia Boulanger), he was a highbrow Gershwin, wading in the shallow stream of jazz. Then he plunged into the acid eddies of dissonance and atonality, emerged with the reputation of being one of the least understandable of U. S. musicians. Today, Copland...
Four years before, a homely, dark-eyed, colorless girl named Fanny Kaplan stepped up to Lenin when he finished speaking at Michelson's factory in Moscow, shot him in the lungs and neck. On the eve of the second All Union Congress, Lenin died, the conflicting groups he had held together split apart...
...pseudonymous fame as Leonard Q. Ross, author of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. When that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious journalistic survey, The Washington Correspondents. Sly Author Rosten enjoyed hearing correspondents chuckle over Hyman Kaplan, ask who Leonard Q. Ross might be. Afraid they might not take his research job seriously if they knew, Author Rosten kept...