Word: alma
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Belying their alma mater's reputation of physical infirmity, Harvard University varsity teams last year recorded the highest winning percentage in the Ivy League for the sixth straight year...
Died. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, 81, father of Technicolor, a lanky, secretive M.I.T. graduate who named his process for his alma mater, hit pay dirt with Becky Sharp in 1935, and ever after mined millions from his Technicolor, Inc., selling only his "services" (never cameras, which were guarded like crown jewels) until a 1950 consent decree forced him to be more accommodating; of a heart attack; in Bel Air, Calif...
...Harvard professors returned to their alma maters this spring to receive honoray awards...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and an alumnus of George Washington University, was honored by his alma mater with the degree of Doctor of Social Science. With his wife, Eleanor Touroff Glueck, he has studied the determination of factors which aid in the prediction and prevention of juvenile delinquency...
...reformer," Max Rafferty, the back-to-basics new superintendent of public instruction, but he had nothing to do with bringing it about. It is mainly the long-planned work of Tom Braden, 45, a wartime OSS-CIA man who went on to become an English professor at Dartmouth, his alma mater, and is now editor-publisher of the Blade-Tribune in Oceanside. Rafferty rooters recently flooded Sacramento in a vain effort to stop Braden's reappointment to the state board of education, apparently because Braden opposed Rafferty's election last November. Net effect: Braden has stolen a good...