Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bachelor Photographer. Though he played in a few TV dramas (notably as the star of Studio One's courtroom thriller, 12 Angry Men), Bob's income was dwindling until in 1954 George Burns of Burns & Allen suggested the new series that has become the Bob Cummings Show. In it, Bob is a dame-happy bachelor photographer whose major problems are to avoid marriage while at the same time trying to find a husband for his widowed sister (Rosemary De Camp), who does not particularly want one. The show is nearly as slapstick as the My Hero series...
Sequitur. In Los Angeles, an ad appeared in the Times: "SINGLE expectant mother desires housework or baby sitting. No bachelor considered...
Lawyer Galindez, a sociable Basque bachelor of 40, fought Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and paid the price of defeat in exile, first to France, then, in 1939, to the Dominican Republic. There he took legal advisory and teaching jobs with the government of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. As he watched the strongman's methods, his fear and anger grew. By 1946 he was deep in anti-Trujillo underground activity and New York friends got him a visa to come to the U.S. By then a fascination with Trujillo's iron personality and Trujillo's absolute...
...same effect might be achieved by letting a student skip his bachelor's degree and go straight on in four years to get his master's, suggested M.I.T.'s Brown. M.I.T.'s Killian had an even more provocative suggestion: unfettered academic freedom for a small, experimental group of hand-picked freshmen, "a complete tutorial system, in which the boys are allowed to develop under the direction of a volunteer group of faculty members, to proceed without requirements to attend classes, and be expected at the end to meet the requirements for graduation." Said Killian: "Their motivations...
Conant goes on to decry the tendency of some universities to hire part-time scientists who avoid basic research in favor of contract work. As a result, Conant notes, "It would be safe to say that a majority of American students who receive a bachelor's degree study in an institution where little or no first rate research or scholarly work is in progress...