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Firm in its resolution to replace Frisoli, the School Committee began its search with a list of 200 applicants By early June the School Committee majority was at a stand will over two candidates. Wylie and Gesell supported Hartford School Superintendent Medill Bair while Acker mann and Pierce the only black member of the committee favored Cheatham...
Point Blank is one of those forgettable movies in which only the settings change-the violence remains the same. The first setting is deserted Alcatraz, where Lee Marvin lies in a cell, badly wounded and flashbacking like mad. Lee, his wife (Sharon Acker) and a friend have just hijacked a helicopter load of cash that some criminal syndicate had tried to deliver, for obscure reasons, to the abandoned prison. Friend and wife, however, have cut Lee out of the deal by pumping him full of lead -but not enough lead, apparently, to interfere with his swimming to the mainland...
...excitement began and ended early when Committeewoman Barbara Acker man opened the meeting with a motion to review the decision which has forced the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats to move Carmichael's November 10th speech to Briggs Cage...
Settled in Washington and married to a fellow art enthusiast, Marjorie Acker, he was soon buying selectively throughout the ages, from an El Greco to a classic Renoir such as Luncheon of the Boating Party, picked up in 1923 for an adventurous $125,000. Bonnard became a special love (he owned 26). As his collection grew (it totaled some 2,000 paintings when he died), the Phillipses in 1930 were crowded out of their home, but they maintained it as a museum with its Oriental rugs, comfortable chairs and ashtrays, and no cordoned-off areas or guards...
Pico Peak in Rutland is one of the oldest and finest areas in the state. A new Mueller double chair was added two years ago to supplement two T-bars and a J-bar. The late Carl Acker's ski school at Pico was one of the first to bring European technique to North America. The base lodge is small and cheery and a wide variety of ticket plans is available. In nearby Plymouth. Roundtop Mountain will open for business for the first time this year with a 4800-foot double chair and a T-bar. Andree Mead Lawrence...