Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready to fight back against the Japanese. He was executive officer of the aircraft carrier Hancock when she was blasted by a Japanese kamikaze, won the Silver Star for getting fires under control and repairing the flight deck in time to recover aircraft. As skipper of the carrier Bennington in 1954. he took over damage control when a catapult exploded and killed 103 men (and earned a Bronze Star...
...returns to teaching history at Harvard after ten years. She is Vassar-educated Mary Ingraham Bunting, 48, a microbiologist and mother of four teenagers, who describes herself as "a geneticist with nest-building experience." The widow of Yale Pathologist Henry Bunting, she had a distinguished teaching career at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley and Yale. In 1955 she became dean of Rutgers University's Douglass College for women, carried on radiation research for the Atomic Energy Commission. Her specialty: a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens ("I'm quite sure the Miracle of the Bleeding Host, which took place...
...three, Helen Frankenthaler, 31, daughter of a judge, product of Bennington College, wife of First Generation Abstract-Expressionist Robert Motherwell, is in some ways the most daring in her work. "I often start with a canvas on the floor," she once said, "then work on it on the wall, changing back and forth, working at it from different sides." She usually begins with no particular idea in mind: "Let's say I start with some arbitrary color, or I simply start." Gradually, the picture builds-"an amorphous inner-world perspective that lies flat on canvas and yet flies...