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With 34 seconds remaining on the clock and the visitors behind by five at 83-78, coach Frank McLaughin was forced to bring back his starting line-up to sew up the victory over his alma mater...
Take the delicate question of social prestige-a "perfectly understandable" concern, Hawes assures, since "associating with persons of high social status is of course widely taken to be good in itself." Of course. To determine how high a school ranks in social prestige, Hawes has simply counted the alma maters of those listed in the Social Register. Thus, with 94 listings, Cincinnati outranks Sarah Lawrence, which has 40. He cautions that his prestige ratings may be unfair to women's colleges, since the Social Register omits data on college for many matrons. The most prestigious ten, according to Hawes...
...Alma Pena...
...biography of the noted author T.S. Garp, from his conception in the hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
...Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper. "I remember thinking in those days," says the laureate, "if only somebody would guarantee me $15 a week, I could sit down and really do some work." The money was a long time coming. For two decades he was supported by his second wife, Alma, who worked as a salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer-but only to readers of a dying language. One of them was a young novelist named Saul Bellow, who translated Singer's tale...