Word: bartlettism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dean Bartlett Cromwell, 82, longtime track coach at the University of Southern California, who from 1909 to 1948 produced teams that won more national championships (twelve) and more individual honors (among his champions: World Record Sprinters Charlie Paddock, Frank Wycoff, Mel Patton) than any other coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Happily unflustered was the culprit: Senior Jessica Moore, 17, the straight-A student editor of Talon, who had simply picked Marx's maxim out of Bartlett's Familiar (but not everywhere) Quotations. "If anyone other than Marx had said it," she remarked sensibly, "there wouldn't have been any excitement." Then Jessica went off to accept a long-scheduled honor: a citizenship award from the Memphis branch of the D.A.R...
Under the New Frontier, there is a whole new social pecking order. At the very top. of course, are the Kennedys. Jack and Jackie. Bobby and Ethel. Sarge and Eunice. Steve and Jean. Then comes a coterie of close friends: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bartlett. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Spaulding. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Evans Jr.. Sir David and Lady Ormsby-Gore. Senator and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper (he is a Republican, but Lorraine Cooper is expert at holding the intimate, 20-person, candlelight parties that the New Society is fond of). Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alsop. William Walton...
...Paul D. Bartlett, living Professor of Chemistry recently won the 1962 August August-Wilhelm von Hoffman medal awarded by the Deutscher Chomiker for outstanding research achievement. Bartlett received the award April 26 in Dean...
Even some of Kenya's fabled white hunters are beginning to pull up stakes and leave. Two of the most prominent, Albert and Fred Bartlett, have sold their farm near Mount Kenya to make a new life in Australia; Ken Jespersen is in the U.S. seeking work; Eric Rungren, a veteran elephant hunter, may move to California or Florida and grow oranges. All this promises further damage to the faltering economy, by discouraging foreign tourists...