Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hattie and Rose went into business together (Hattie made hats to go with Rose's dresses), moved to an uptown shop above a delicatessen and a Chinese restaurant. Their only advertising was Hattie herself, but it was enough. Soon Soprano Alma Gluck, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. and other fashionable ladies were standing patiently for fittings in the mingled aroma of chop suey and lox. In 1919, after a quarrel, Hattie bought out her partner, and later moved to the present, world-famed Carnegie salon on Manhattan's East 49th Street. The same year, she made her first...
...that Autherine be allowed to come back to her classes. Then, at a convocation of 7,500 students, President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael finally took a stand. He demanded that all students help maintain order to "remove the cloud which, in the minds of many, now hangs over our beloved alma mater." Though the university had fought by every legal means to keep segregation, he said, it could not fly in the face of a court decree ordering the trustees to take in a Negro. "No great university can afford to defy the laws of the land and thus...
...from a consumers' group. They had two things in common-they were responsible for the personnel policies of their organizations, and they wanted to know how psychology and psychiatry could help them with their problems. Companies represented ranged from giant A. T. & T. through Kraft Foods to the Alma Piston Co. of Alma, Mich...
Leaning low over the blue-white ice of Lake Misurina, the Soviet skater was a study in scowling concentration. Forgotten was the happy camaraderie of stadium ceremony. This was why he had spent bleak, cold years of practice back home at Alma-Ata, this was why he and his Olympic teammates had come to Cortina: to whip the world...
...book that makes it less remote is Mozart, by Marcia Davenport, first published in 1932 and now reissued (Scribner; $6). Author Davenport, daughter of famed Soprano Alma Gluck, writes honestly, if often sentimentally, and with style about "one of the world's best-loved immortals...