Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Movie Stars trumped up an exclusive, with the aid of Hollywood Starlet Connie Stevens, I FOUND GOD IN YOUR SCHOOL, proclaimed Miss Stevens in a story subtitled "Connie Speaks to Caroline." The statement rested on the fact that as a teen-ager Miss Stevens had attended a Sacred Heart school on the West Coast and that Caroline, years later, is enrolled in a Sacred Heart school in New York...
...early this year-gives them a new measure of security. Young marrieds, too, believe that pensions and medical insurance will take care of the future, are living to the hilt now. At the same time, so many moonlighting students have taken part-time jobs that the average U.S. teen-ager earns $400 a year, and spends practically every penny...
...more than 50 major buildings in 16 years, will slow down the rate of new construction. Almost all of its $6,000,000 from Ford will go toward scholarships, fellowships, and endowments for more than 30 faculty chairs (average endowment: $400,000). "Here we are -a teen-ager among the university giants," said President Abram L. Sachar, "and we had better be good to warrant going steady with the best." With the latest gift, he added, "we will secure virtually all our tenured professorships in one fell swoop. This will make academic history...
...acquired none of the signs of soprano temperament, is instead almost girlishly exuberant about her new career. Her dressing room is crowded with "furry little toy animals," and like a teen-ager after the senior prom, she brings home all her curtain-call flowers and heaps them in the bathtub until she can arrange them around the house. To get to Covent Garden she takes a half hour ride on the tube, studying her role en route. "I memorize beautifully when there is noise around," she says. There promises to be a lot of noise about Gwyneth Jones for some...
...teen-ager playing for Har-Brack high school in Brackenridge, Pa. "Guys would shake hands with me, and there would be bills in their palms," he remembers-and sometimes the take ran to $150 a week. The N.F.L.'s Cleveland Browns signed him at 18, shipped him off to Canada for seasoning. Cookie liked it so well he decided to stay. By 1962, when he quit and shuffled off to Buffalo, Cookie was the No. 1 back in Canadian football and a $20,000-a-year man with the Toronto Argonauts...