Word: protegee
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Tap never left Harlem for good, however. Green Sims and Briggs all learned to tap on the streets, to street rhythms, spurred by intense competition to keep pace, to create new steps, to establish an identity. The greatest old timers came from the streets, but they don't dance anymore...
The plot, as Scotland Yard quickly discovered, was devised by a pair of dashing rascals who had first met during the Boer War. Captain Richard Howard Gorges, a raffish cavalry hero, was drummed out of his regiment for consorting with a Malay boy, and later joined the Royal Irish Regiment...
DIED. Jacob S. Potofsky, 84, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1946-72); in New York City. At 15, the Ukrainian-born Potofsky joined fellow pantsmakers in a strike that led to the founding of the Amalgamated by Sidney Hillman. As Hillman's protege, he helped to...
Despite the change in Secretaries, Treasury policies are likely to remain pretty much the same. In fact, Miller has been something of a Blumenthal protege. The two men, moreover, are products of the urbane world of Big Business and both favor liberal social policies. When they breakfasted together, as they...
In a new book, Confessions of a Muckraker (Random House; $12.95), the late columnist's protege and successor, Jack Anderson (writing with James Boyd), acknowledges that Pearson's "success and power rested in large measure in the practiced impugning of others." The book is a lively recall of...