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Tackle Ken Leeper, onetime Marine sergeant, became so enthusiastic that he dieted down from 275 Ibs. to 235 Ibs. and registered for an all-women's course in modern dance. He was accepted, and by mid-semester was elected to Orchesis, the honorary dancing society. Leeper did his own choreography for the Orchesis show, in which he will wear a fluffy tutu (ballet costume) neatly ornamented by a tattooed Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, on his ham-sized left arm. So far, Leeper has managed to keep his head. Says he: "I'd still rather throw a block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...housekeeper for deans and professors, doing the routine jobs that keep a large university going. He assigns rooms for classes and examinations, administers exams and rules of the Faculty. This drab but necessary work is administered with an easy kind of efficiency that quickly wins the affection of his all-women staff. Although by the nature of his position, he must dispense red tape, but he is no admirer of it: one of his proudest achievements has been simplifying the form-filling procedure students must go through to register...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Man On The Form | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Benton hanging on his walls; he wants a Van Dyck. . . . Don't ever get art separated from money." Grumbling that the "New York influence" dominates U.S. artistic taste, Benton said, "The same thing happened in France. . . . What the hell is Paris? A city of devices, that's all-women's fancy drawers and fancy pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Alarms & Excursions | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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