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...admissions policy of the college will, hopefully, continue to find room for the "diamond in the rough," the intelligent applicant who at East Podunk High has not been given the academic advantages of Exeter or Bronx Science. Presumably these students benefit from attending Harvard and the diverse background they contribute is valuable for undergraduate education...
...Bronx Cheer. Another Congressman, New York Democrat Charles A. Buckley (elected in 1934), turned up on the lengthening list of lawmakers who spend federal staff allowances with cheery abandon. Reported Scripps-Howard Newshawk Vance Trimble (TIME, March 16): The Bronx's Buckley pays $38,497 a year to eight political followers in New York City who work part time on Buckley business, mostly in their own homes. Buckley's Washington office is staffed by only two people, both paid not out of his staff allowance, but from funds of the House Public Works Committee, of which...
...equipped with only a radio localizer enabling pilots to line up their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...
...Miserable Years." Feiffer was born in The Bronx, and has never got over it. ("The place I grew up in didn't even have the dignity to be a slum.") His father held a variety of jobs, from dental technician to salesman; his mother was a fashion designer. Like his characters, Feiffer suffered many childhood frustrations. (''Echoes of my childhood keep creeping into my work. I'm sneaky-I hide behind my pictures.") In 1946 he got out of James Monroe High School to discover that he lacked half a credit to get into college...
...Perfect Partners. Brooklyn-born Betty and Bronx-born Adolph complement each other perfectly. As a performer Betty is ironic but cool and soothing-a superior psychiatric nurse. Adolph, with his rubber-kneed strut, his wild hair and mad eyes, is clearly her patient...