Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Selection by Race. The discussion is certain to be lively. The plan has been assailed as going too far and too fast by New York City's Board of Education. Superintendent Bernard Donovan claims that it would lead to the selection of teachers and principals on the basis of "pull, influence, race, or some other way instead of merit." Albert Shanker,*president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, con tends that it would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead...
Jeweled Eggs. For all his quirks, Henry had a remarkable eye. Without relying on professional advice, except occasionally from Bernard Berenson, he rambled all over Europe, picking up Italian primitives, Byzantine silver, Renaissance bronzes and Persian ceramics. He sailed into St. Petersburg on his yacht to buy Faberge jeweled eggs...
...periodical visitations at Oxford Street for all red-haired girls to keep out of sight and all young men with incurable Oxford accents to put on their hats and walk about pretending to be customers." But the practice survived, and the chain's present chairman, scholarly Sir Bernard Miller, 63, started in the Oxford Street store's silk department after reading modern history at Oxford University...
Refund the Difference. Sir Bernard took over in 1955, expanded operations, notably by opening 15 supermarkets, but kept to the company motto, "Never knowingly undersold." Any customer who finds an item he bought at John Lewis selling for less elsewhere can get a refund of the difference. In line with its low-price policy, John Lewis has fought retail price fixing for decades. Only last summer the company had it out with the makers of Cadbury's chocolate, and sweet-toothed Britons gleefully watched the retail price of candy crumble...
...Morris have much luck with his offspring. His favorite daughter was beautiful but epileptic. The other daughter nearly married George Bernard Shaw but briefly married another seedy socialist comrade of Morris, grew a mustache and took up with an androgynous lady who wore tweed knickerbockers. In later life she took to impersonating the catatonic lady of Shalott and became both custodian of and exhibit at the Morris shrine at Kelmscott Manor...