Word: bachelor
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Ruth Putnam left Germany and came to the United States in 1948. She received her Bachelor of Science and PhD at the University of California in Los Angeles...
Would the Louds do it again? "Never, I've had it," says Pat, who is still single and lives with four of the children in the house she and Bill shared. Yes, says Bill, a swinging bachelor who has become something of a celebrity both in Santa Barbara and on business trips: "I enjoyed it. I'm happiest when I've got a lot of people around and when people come up and talk to me about it. It's an ego trip, I suppose...
...When Bachelor Ailey is not busy pursuing his favorite pastimes (pastries, girls, diets-he has just shed 50 Ibs.), he can usually be found at his company's Manhattan headquarters, puttering around in a tattered red sweater and rolled-up slacks, dreaming up new jobs for himself. He has, for example, decided to become a curator as well as an innovator in dance. He now regularly revives old works by the likes of Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham and, of course, Lester Horton. That involves the company, says Ailey, "in making one arm of ourselves a museum of classic American...
...Harvard education behind him, including lots of Latin and Greek and a course or two under Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A lifelong bachelor, Alger was rather disastrously prone to the unintentional double-entendre -e.g., "Imogene laid herself out to entertain him." But he was also capable of modestly cynical repartee: "When a man gets to be 51, marriage is very hazardous." "It always...
...increase in jobs, starting salaries will be little changed from last year. Endicott predicts only about a 2% overall rise in pay-less than last year's inflation. According to Endicott, these are the average monthly starting salaries being offered for male June graduates with bachelor's degrees...