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...Hollywood, after 17 years of retirement, onetime Movie Dancer Eleanor Powell, 48, donned top hat and tights to rehearse for a Las Vegas comeback. A bachelor girl since her divorce from Actor Glenn Ford more than a year ago, Eleanor was spurred into her new burst of high stepping by Son Peter Ford, 16. "He bet me I couldn't do it," she said. "He thinks I'm from the horse-and-buggy...
...done by tempestuous circuit riders, such as the legendary Peter Cartwright, who wrestled the devil up and down the Ohio Valley (his biographer says he won). Though Wesley exhorted his circuit riders to "preach expressly on education," learning for themselves was another matter. Until 1934, Methodist ministers needed no bachelor's degree for ordination, qualified by a laughable oral exam. One minister bragged about his answers. What is the world's highest mountain? "Mount Zion, bless the Lord." The longest river? "River of salvation, hallelujah...
...telephoned me to tell me the news," recalls Jackie's aunt, Maude Davis, "but she said, 'You can't say anything about it because the Saturday Evening Post is about to come out with an article on Jack called "The Senate's Gay Young Bachelor," and this would spoil it.' " Sniffs Aunt Michelle Bouvier Putnam: "The whole Kennedy clan is unperturbed by publicity. We feel differently about it. Their clan is totally united; ours...
...years between these springs, a good deal was happening to the University. Inspired by (among a plethora of influential supporting ideas) Bundy's entreaty, "We must attract, entice, drive, pull, or poke leading men and women students into the graduate schools," the Faculty passed programs for a five-year Bachelor of Science and a six-year Bachelor of Architecture...
Though the breed proliferates, some die out. Among the 800 degrees no longer in use are Maid of Arts and Mistress of Polite Literature-used in the 19th century when it seemed unseemly for women to be Bachelors. Gone also are Bachelor of Beauty Culture and Doctor of the More Humane Letters. Somebody also abolished the Bachelor of Both Laws (canon and civil) and the Doctor of Either Law (same meaning...