Word: wilma
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of the Radcliffe Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will assume duties as vice-President of Radcliffe, and Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assisstant Dean of the Faculty at Harvard, will become Administrative vice-President at Radcliffe on a part-time appointment effective January...
...situation-comedy series that arrived on television last week parodies all the others (see below). Called The Flintstones, the program uses first-rate animated cartoons in place of second-rate actors, and its approach to satire of 20th century life is by way of the Stone Age. Fred and Wilma Flintstone live in a split-level cave. His shaver is a clamshell with a bee in it. Everybody wears skins. When the neighbors collect for an evening of song, Fred picks out the tunes on the Stoneway...
Kathleen O. Eliot, Dean of Instruction; Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of the Graduate School; and Thankful Bailey, President of SGA, also delivered brief speeches. The ceremony was preceded by an academic procession for which, in an unexplained departure from tradition, seniors did not wear academic gowns...
...Rome Wilma turned out to be about the calmest person on the U.S. squad, contrasting sharply with her steady date, tense and tormented Sprinter Ray Norton. "There's not a nerve in her body," said Ed Temple, her college coach, who also handled the U.S. women's team in Rome. "She's almost lazy. She often goes to sleep between the semifinal and final runs. Then she gets over those starting blocks and-boom-all that harnessed energy explodes into speed...
...fame grew, Wilma got dozens of telegrams in a smattering of languages. She patiently signed autographs by the dozen as Italian fans threw their books down on the field. The home-town Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle ran a laudatory editorial ("an inspiration to the world in general"), and Tennessee's Governor Buford Ellington, who had run for office as an "oldfashioned segregationist," made plans to head the welcome-home party. When the Olympics were done. Coach Temple could find only one fault with the record of the world's fastest woman: "Wilma's never been tested since...