Word: although
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Although a few Houses have provided similar seminars in the past, this is the first year that the University has granted funds. Adams, Kirkland, and Dunster have developed the only definite plans for the Fall Term, but most of the others will institute groups in the Spring...
...Although his father was one of the most renowned Hamlets, John Barrymore Jr., 28, has never been notably Shakespearean. But last week he made Barrymore-sized headlines after a sub-balcony performance worthy of a Greenwich Village Romeo and Juliet. At 5 a.m. he insistently rang the doorbell of his ex-fiancée, Italian Cinemactress Giorgia Moll, 21. Barrymore announced himself as the apartment porter, but Giorgia's mother, not the least bit fooled, had the cops called. When John Jr. was later haled into court on charges of housebreaking and defamation, the whole thing became clear-more...
...minuscule (pop. 2,346) Montague, Mich, found herself Miss America of 1961. While she was sewing up the title with victories in the talent (dressmaking) and bathing-suit (35-22-35) preliminaries at Atlantic City, her Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams, was campaigning in New Jersey for Jack Kennedy. Although he missed her crowning, "Soapy" slipped into town in time for the subsequent Coronation Ball and a dance with his comely constituent, who magnanimously labeled it "my second biggest thrill of the night...
...incident, but, he added wryly, "what was I supposed to do-chicken?" London, who has performed the role often in the U.S. and Europe, had only three days to rehearse with the Bolshoi Opera. He proved to be in top form, sang his part in near-perfect Russian (although he does not speak the language). The audience gave him a standing ovation and eight curtain calls. Said London: "This is the climax of a life-long dream...
...made the startling discovery that 770/4,096 of the blood of each horse came from an English stallion named Herod, in 1758. Vuillier then set about breeding horses to duplicate this precise percentage of Herod's blood, plus the proper proportions of blood from the 19th century progenitors. Although she was trained for a career as a concert pianist, Mme Vuillier absorbed the theory well that the old Aga Khan himself persuaded her to take over the job of breeding manager when her husband died...