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Yale, in disclosing the new plan, said that it was caused to a great extent by extra-curricular life conflicting with studies. "Undoubtedly," the Yale announcement said, "the emphasis on athletics, extra-curricular life, weekends, and a bee-hive of activity outside the classroom on which prestige and success are felt to turn, now makes an environment which involves serious conflict with important educational goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Adopts New Curriculum Plan From '53 Report | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

...member noted, to 'seeing Lieut. F. stalk through the office with a cigar in one hand and a pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced a bug, adding that she had no desire to be called the queen bee. Designers then hit upon the idea of a head of Pallas Athene, a goddess associated with an impressive variety of womanly virtues and no vices either womanly or godlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: My Best Soldiers | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...arms and ex-West Pointers, the general choked up as humanly as any other mortal. Vividly attractive Mrs. Clark recalled that they had first met on a blind date and that "he was a complete bust." The general affectionately reminded her of how she had sat on a bee, added thoughtfully that then "we got to know each other better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Resignation & Command. From bee-stung lips to white-sheathed hips, 32-year-old Dorothy personified topic A. Her warm brown eyes singled out two or three lucky males for what appeared to be a special invitation, and her long, discreetly undulating body lent emphasis to the looks. Some of her songs told a story-about Good for Nothing Joe or Just One of Those Things; some rekindled the old glories of such sentiments as I Got Rhythm and Easy to Love. Her voice was commonplace, but her poised and charming delivery had the customers holding their breath. Everyone was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two for the Show | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Lunched with new members of the Senate and spent most of the time talking to Kentucky's Alben Barkley about the best varieties of pasture grass; lunched with new members of the House and accepted from Georgia's Iris Blitch (once named the "Queen Bee" of the Georgia legislature because of her work for beekeepers) a gift of two quarts of Georgia honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Town & Country Life | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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