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...which long played second sax to the Room, became a supper club in 1965. Its windows were doubled in size and the floor raised 18 in. to pull the skyline into the room. It was modestly successful for 14 years, bringing in such performers as Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan. But topflight nonrock talent became increasingly hard to find from season to season, and Partners May and Daly decided to turn the place into a European-style cabaret...
...great lessons of fairy tales is to mind what one wishes for: one may get it. In 1895 a schoolgirl named Gladys Deacon read about the marriage of the reluctant Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough and determined that some day she too would marry well...
...young fellow came to my newspaper office the other day looking for a job. He had just graduated from Duke and told me that while there he had gotten religion and was going to become a minister. "You're the exception rather than the rule," I told him. "Often the Sunday School boy goes off to college and becomes an atheist...
...Duke University has plans to require English composition for all freshmen regardless of entering grades or Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. But the battle does not end with the freshman year. Dartmouth recently discovered that the skill of some students who did well in freshman writing actually declined in the next three years, so lax were the college writing requirements...
...train arrives at the station": "The station is crowded"). One study of 300 freshmen at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, found that students trained by this method wrote significantly better than a control group. Sentence combining can be used at all age levels. A program called Success, developed at Duke, teaches second-and third-graders how to read and write using vocabulary from newspapers. Before writing their own paragraphs, they compose paragraphs together, with the teacher at the blackboard acting as secretary...