Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murphy, a shrewd, quiet bachelor, picked the Pittsburgh Pirates to work on first because "I wanted a big union town." He claims members in ten or eleven clubs, says he intends to notify owners of five other teams, representing both major leagues, that the union wants to talk shop. After he got the big leagues under control Murphy figured the minor leagues (with their 6,000-odd players) could stand some organizing. Then, said he, the ballplayers could fire him if they wanted to, but he didn't think they would...
...long-standing distinction between A.B. and S.B. degrees may evaporate next fall if the move currently being considered by the Faculty is carried through. Provost Buck announced yesterday that a motion is pending to eliminate the Bachelor of Science degree entirely and discontinue the ancient language requirement now attached to the Bachelor of Arts degree...
...matters stand now, a minimum of three high school or two college years of Latin or Greek are required of a candidate for the Bachelor of Arts degree; a student without this requirement receives a Bachelor of Sciences, whatever his field of concentration. For this reason, men working in Romance Languages or History and Literature may receive the Science degree, while those graduating in Physics or Chemistry may wind up with a Bachelor of Arts...
...Solo in Tom-Toms is a backward glance at his Colorado boyhood and bachelor days. Youth itself, he explains, is a sort of solo in tom-toms. Once he heard some Sioux Indians beating out a lament for a dead boy: Where has the young buck gone? Tell us where the long ride ends; say to us where the young buck has gone? It seemed to him "a goodbye to the West, a goodbye to youth. . . . I began to find a meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism...
...Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of Triumph (TIME, Jan. 28), whose hero listened to Trenet on a taxicab radio. The advance buildup was so good that Trenet was signed by the Embassy Club for what amounts to about $6,500 a week. He is a bachelor...