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...matches, to last all day Friday and end on Saturday, will take place at the Concourse Plaza Hotel in the Bronx. Non-Ivy League schools competing include Rutgers, Navy, New York University and CCNY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Will Enter Intercollegiate Meet | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...youngster, Josh Wallman has always been fond of birds. A lifelong owner of canaries and parakeets, he started going to the Natural Science Center of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History at about eleven, soon became an unpaid, unofficial "helper" there. During his sophomore year at the Bronx High School of Science, he studied the waterproofing of birds' feathers, earned a regional award from the Future Scientists of America Foundation. Winning the eye of Dr. Daniel S. Lehrman of the Rutgers University Institute of Animal Behavior, Josh was taken on during summer vacations as a laboratory assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Coos Without Bows | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...closely. Her part was much different, requiring a sophisticated irony and a worldly resignation. Miss Cryer proved herself both singer and actress, entrancing the audience with the cool eroticism of Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, and handling Vera's jaded sarcasm with elegant ease. Her imitation of a Bronx gun moll in the first act was one of the most intelligent bits of broad humor seen around here in a long, long time...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Pal Joey | 3/11/1961 | See Source »

...Tone Rolls. Someone else might well have been Bobby Darin. The incumbent, born Walden Robert Cassotto in The Bronx in 1936, contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: 2-1/2 Months to Go | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...Best known as a women's college in Manhattan, Hunter also has a coeducational campus in The Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: 2-1/2 Months to Go | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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