Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They offered me $25,000 a week," brooded Hoofer Winchell as show time approached. "They said that's what Marlene gets, but I said Marlene hasn't got syndication." Fitfully hazarding a buck and wing, he boasted: "I did four shows a day at McVickers' in Chicago right after the Armistice." And at twelve, he proudly recalled, he plugged songs with George Jessel at the old Imperial Theater in New York, later danced with Eddie Cantor and Lila...
Harvard, as Paul H. Buck has said, is a "university college," where interplay between the college and graduate school curricula is fairly unique. Columbia, for example, has two separate faculties, and there is little opportunity to utilize both. The Columbia College register can offer juniors and seniors only seminar groups which are "conducted like their graduate prototypes...
...Revisions in the Ph.D. program are directing the time of senior faculty members to graduate tutorial work. For the high-ranking student who feels his middle-group courses expendable, and personal attention more desirable, a wide range of graduate courses can provide him with a training in scholarship.PAUL H. BUCK...
...week long Louisville was a country carnival, happily clipping the customers. The town belonged to hotelkeepers with five-buck rooms sold out at $25 a flop, to hash houses peddling 60? breakfasts for $2, to taxi drivers with their meters off, charging fat, flat fees. It belonged to loud, lubricated crowds, to light-fingered dips tiptoeing daintily among the juleps. But right up to post time, the 84th running of the Kentucky Derby belonged to a big-barreled California colt named Silky Sullivan (TIME, March...
What Rudolph Flesch (Why Johnny Can't Read) and John Keats both know: the quickest way to make a fast buck is to write a book criticizing education...