Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I'll Do It If You Will." Dana helps those who help themselves, and he loves luring a whole community into backing its local college. (If he judges that a town can raise two-thirds of the money, he shrewdly limits himself to one-third.)
Able, hard-working James Herbert Case Jr., Wall Streeter turned educator, left the presidency of Washington and Jefferson College nine years ago to take over a lively problem school: tiny (295 students) Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Bard was broke; a onetime experimental affiliate of Columbia University, it...
It was still not enough, and Case agreed. But when the teachers demanded another 10% raise this fall, he had to turn it down. Bard was still in the red. The teachers would have to wait for next year's drive to raise $2,900,000, one-third earmarked...
Some hours later, the girl walked into her hotel room. Slowly she took off her dark glasses and peeled heavy strips of adhesive tape from her eyelids. Her night-black eyes blinked in the sudden brightness. "My God," said Actress Anne Bancroft to the fellow actor who had accompanied her...
From now on, there would always be the memory of the fear she experienced during her experiment with blindness. After weeks of work, Actress Bancroft was beginning to understand that last dimension of the role for which she was preparing. Already a part of her was onstage, creating with incredible...