Word: bancrofts
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...work at Dartmouth is done as part of a "personnel" organization. Begun by Professor Bancroft, it was carried on by Dr. Husbandt, who spent the war period in the personnel department of the army, and was so impressed by certain of its features that he took them back to the campus. Here, too, as at Yale and Brown. Dr. Arthur Ruggles was called in to organize the psychiatric end of the work...
...rowed today, the Combination crew was seated, as follows: stroke, A. O. Pendar '27; 7, W. K. Rice '27; 6, R. S. Riley '27; 5, P. B. Huntington '26; 4, T. D. Howe Jr. '26; 3, K. D. Robinson '29; 2, J. de W. Hubbard '29; bow, George Bancroft '27; cox., A. M. Pappenheimer...
...Nicodemus, Rod Steiger spuming as Pilate, Ernest Borgnine in the John Wayne role. Olivia Hussey, less than a decade after Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," is Jesus' mother (another movie where the actors playing the son is older, here by seven years, than the actress playing his mother). Anne Bancroft is Magdalene - the casting director must have mixed up the two Marys...
Sulzberger added that the board should avoid “setting a precedent for revisiting its judgments over many decades.” Yet the slippery-slope argument is not very compelling here. Consider that in December 2002, Columbia University rescinded Michael Bellesiles’s Bancroft Prize after it was discovered that his award-winning book, Arming America, relied on fabricated sources. Were the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty’s prize, it would not threaten past Pulitzer winners any more than the rescinding of Bellesiles’s award threatened previous Bancroft winners...
...wrote dozens of parodies, short stories and other humor pieces for the New Yorker. One of the more famous was a 1962 short story, "Yma Dream," a frequently anthologized tale of a strange cocktail party whose guests bear tongue-twister names. He adapted it as a sketch for Anne Bancroft's 1970 television special, Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man, which not only won him an Emmy but also introduced him to both its director and producer, Martin Charnin, who later offered him his first Broadway show, and his future writing partner, Bancroft's husband, Mel Brooks...