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Henry Bryant Bigelow. Bigelow, Professor of Zoology, introduced oceanography to the University together with Alexander Agassiz and founded the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute for study of marine life, Undoubtedly the world's greatest expert on jellyfish about which he once wrote a monograph, Bigelow was especially able at getting around the multi-syllabled terminology of oceanography and explaining the science in homespun style...
Born. To David Rose, 39, conductor-composer (Holiday for Strings), onetime husband of Cinemactresses Martha Raye and Judy Garland;* and Betty Bigelow Rose, 21, ex-Manhattan model: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Lee. Weight: 61bs...
They knew little about their quarry except that she was an assistant professor of history. But she sounded promising-she was a Wellesley alumna ('30) of a suitable age (38), and she had recently won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography entitled Forgotten First Citizen-John Bigelow* What the ladies saw that day was nonetheless a surprise...
...teaching at Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. She taught Cavalier and Puritan poetry and early English literature, "with Beowulf tucked in." In seven years she became one of the best teachers the school had, and when she went on to Columbia for her degree (John Bigelow was written for her Ph.D. dissertation), she did so well that other teaching appointments began to come easy. She was the first woman in the history department of New York's City College, went next to the New Jersey College for Women and finally to Brooklyn ("I was sold...
...John Bigelow (1817-1911), editor with William Cullen Bryant of the N.Y. Evening Post, Civil War consul to France and one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a lifelong man-behind-the-scenes. Historians had left him there...