Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin teachers* recently agreed that the event which would give them most pleasure and at the same time mightily advance the cause of true education would be to blow up Teachers College at Columbia University. Mortimer Jerome Adler would probably volunteer to light the fuse...
...Professor John Dewey, then the Jove of Morningside Heights, once came to a meeting of the university philosophy club to hear one of his students read a paper. As the thin, intense young man warmed to his subject, the great philosopher's face grew red. Finally, when young Adler quoted a passage from Dewey and commented, "There is certainly nothing of the love of God in this utterance," Dewey could take no more. He jumped to his feet, shouting, "Nobody is going to tell me how to love God," and stalked...
After Burt Lancaster comes a little stinker called The Magic Face. William Shirer narrates an idiotic story about how Hitler died. You guessed, it Luther Adler, plays the Feuhrer...
...launch its 100th anniversary celebration this week, Marshall Field's Chicago department store invited some of its former employees to a buffet supper. Among them: Movie Director Vincente Minnelli, who once dressed the store's windows; Felix Adler, the famed clown, who once sold rugs; Burt Lancaster, floorwalker turned cinemactor; Cinemactress Arlene Dahl, onetime lingerie model; and ex-Elevator Girl Dorothy Lamour...
Other officers named to the new executive board were Michael Joseph Halberstam '53 of Torrington, Connecticut and Dunster House as Associate Managing Editor; James Moorfield Storey '53 of Jamaica Plain and Eliot House as Sports Editor; and James Baron Adler '53 of Freeport, New York and Winthrop House as Advertising Manager...