Word: chappaqua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in New York City, Gleason got hooked on jazz during his junior year in Chappaqua's Horace Greeley High School, when, during a siege of measles, he dialed in Armstrong, Hines and Henderson on his bedside radio. At Columbia University, Gleason was news editor for the Spectator, often nursed a beer all night long in the jazz joints on 52nd Street. With all that jazz, Gleason finally collapsed, quit college in his senior year. Cracks he: "I'm not copping a plea, but I did get a throat infection, and that cooled...
Bayley's running mate, Mark K. Adams '60, of Leverett House and Chappaqua, N.Y., was unopposed for the vice-presidency. Repeating charges of machine politics, made earlier by Bayley's opponent, Jay C. Harris '60, the freshmen nominated one of their own number for the important post of operations director...
...members are Lucy Busselle of Everett House and Princeton, N.J., concentrating in History and Literature; Mrs. Ruth Ellen Gahm of Cambridge, in Social Relations, and Stephanie Lang of Holmes Hall and Chappaqua, N.Y., in History and Literature...
Died. Gustave Stubbs Lobrano, 53, who as The New Yorker magazine's managing editor for fiction since 1941 did much to set the tone and style of the plotless "New Yorker story"; following an operation; in Chappaqua...
...Wash.; Lester R. Moulton, Marblehead, Mass.; Stewart Ogden, Louisville, Ky.; Harold P. Santmire of Buffalo, N. Y.; Stephen L. Singer of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Glenn E. Sisler of Birmingham, Mich.; Barry L. Wasserman of Brookline, Mass.; Francis J. Weller Jr. of Pelham, N. Y.; David L. Whitman of Chappaqua, N. Y.; Gayle B. Wilhelm (Mgr.) of Amherst, Mass...