Word: exception
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Group tutorial is the device introduced for remedying this "most serious deficiency." Everyone in the five departments who is now on individual tutorial would be taken off this arrangement, except for perhaps the top five percent of the juniors and seniors. Then all sophomores, and the juniors and seniors not on individual tutorial, would be tutored in regular five-man seminars...
...shown signs of wanting to become a major naval power. This ambition was fed by the annihilation of the Japanese navy and the Communist seizure of China, which opened a range of Pacific warm-water bases to the Red navy. But Russia's known navy is negligible except for its growing submarine fleet. It has about 300 submarines now, of which 30 to 40 are snorkel-equipped boats with enough speed and range to travel with a fleet...
Close the Schools. Except for a new "Hopalong Hildegarde" number which she did in a red sombrero to the strains of Texas Tornado, the act was the standard Hildegarde mixture of sentiment and bounce. Interspersed with her flamboyant piano-playing and her vivacious and nostalgic songs came such blushing lines as "I know I'm not pretty, but I got pep." She kept getting her audiences into the act by handing out roses and kisses to bashful customers (one man decorated with a rose in Olney, Md.: General Omar Bradley...
...elected [John E.] Babb. Also, we carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking in education. Next time, we will have to go down and educate Missouri and Kentucky...
...James Matthew Barrie's Peter Pan, originally produced in London in 1904 with the late Nina Boucicault as the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, ran for 145 performances. The play has been revived in London every Christmas season since, except in the blitz years of '40 and '41. On Broadway, Maude Adams played Peter over 300 times between 1905 and 1916. Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne had flings at revivals in the '20s and '30s. Last week, the current Broadway production, with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, played its 238th performance, setting...