Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varicolored career. For Walter O'Malley, the tortuous trail to California began in The Bronx, where he was born on Oct. 9, 1903. He was the only son of Manhattan Politico Edwin J. O'Malley, a man who could trace his ancestry back to County Mayo, and Alma Feltner O'Malley, a woman whose family background was stolidly German. At Culver Military Academy young O'Malley had his first and last brush with baseball as a player. He caught a ball on his nose, and quit. At the University of Pennsylvania he shunned athletics to become...
Perhaps no educator willing to rush into print thinks as little of U.S. education as Stringfellow Barr. Now professor of humanities at Rutgers, he has taught at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, pioneered (with Hutchins and Adler) the Great Books idea, served as president of Great Books-oriented St. John's College in Maryland. At 60, "Winkie" Barr has committed a first novel. Not surprisingly, it is about life among professors, and even less surprisingly, it says that U.S. professors, students, college presidents and trustees are a sorry...
Spanish at Four. The whole idea of the school is not to give the children a completely different education from the kind they would receive elsewhere, but to keep them constantly challenged. "A kindergarten child with an IQ of 135," says Alma, "is about 6½ years old. You can't keep a child like that interested in finger painting all year." Each pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons...
...grade, would be brought back screaming: "They have books in kindergarten but just with pictures. They don't do numbers. I want to be in first grade." After a two-week trial, the McCormicks let her have her way. As for the parents, they are equally enthusiastic. Says Alma: "The only complaints we've had were good-natured ones from the parents of a couple of four-year-olds who've been reading under the covers by flashlight when they were supposed to be asleep...
...Bear Bryant, for one, is not even going to stay on at College Station, Texas to find out what football might be like without everybody's All-American. Bear is chucking a contract that has seven $15,000 years to run, and he is hotfooting it for his alma mater, Alabama U. The once mighty Alabamans have been having woeful times on the football field. "Say you heard your mother call," explains Bear Bryant solemnly. "If you thought she wanted you to do the chores, you might not answer. But if you thought she needed...