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...Crimson received the benefit of seven B.U. errors which resulted in three unearned runs. Center fielder Tom Boone and second baseman Jim Dwinell helped to amass the remainder with two safeties apiece. In the first inning a walk, an error, and singles by Phil Bernstein and Williams netted two runs, which turned out to be enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Baseball Squad Crushes B.U., 9-1; Williams Hurls Crimson to Fifth Straight Win | 4/29/1959 | See Source »

...dollar. Almost the only quizzes left are the small-payoff contests that the trade calls "peanut" shows. But this week, after four months on the air, Air Force Lieut. James Astrue will have proved that, given time, tenacity, and a modest amount of information, a man can still amass an astonishing amount of peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Plenty of Peanuts | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...student who can amass enough learning to get Advanced Placement in three courses is often one with widespread interests. Not all A. P. students get advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Advanced Placement Program Nears Maturity | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

...Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Man | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Mary Clarke chose to make Smith her principal heir and how she was able to amass $200,000 are questions as puzzling to acquaintances in Whitinsville, Mass. (pop. 8,000), where she was born, and Kingston, R.I., where she died, as they are to Smith fund raisers. The daughter of a Whitinsville doctor, she attended Smith in 1879-80 as a sophomore (she had studied previously at Wellesley), then dropped out. Smith's records show that she made "very high" marks in history and natural history, did satisfactorily in her other subjects. But for some reason she left school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Quiet Alumna | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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