Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deciding, 'Just who am I?' It must come from living. What you are in life, you are onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted to be the roller-skating champion of the world, and those damned singing lessons interfered with my practice...
...Stade also praised the new singlerent plan, whereby all rooms in freshman dormitories rent for the same price per year regardless of size or "desirability." He asserted that "it has eliminated the distinction between 'Gold Coast' freshmen and scholarship students, and has also brought greater mixing among groups of students." Last year the Masters debated extending this policy to upperclassmen, but finally rejected...
...Class-B all-state team as a 200-lb. tackle for Farmington High School, Coach Art ("Pappy") Lewis of West Virginia University began dropping by to watch him play. "He was hunting all over the field for people to knock down even then," says Lewis. With a full scholarship to West Virginia, Huff majored in physical education (C plus grades) to get ready for a coaching career, dutifully plowed through such classes as Ballroom Dance, Fundamentals of Basketball, and Wrestling, got creditable B's in advanced biology and history courses. In his senior year in 1955, Huff had made...
Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...
Born 43 years ago into a wealthy Chicago family (Thor Power Tool Co.), Florsheim was a painfully shy child, channeled all his energies into straight-A scholarship and crude, gloomy art. His father reluctantly helped him get an art education in Europe during the 1930s, but before World War II Florsheim managed to sell just one picture...