Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of Vince Moravec in last year's ill-fated Virginia game is all too recent in the minds of followers of the Crimson. Moravoc led an undefeated Varsity into the battle, but a crushing knee injury ended Vince's playing career and hampered the team for the remainder of the campaign...
From sub-debs to the Dramatic Club, from Snappy Stories to the Atlantic Monthly--that's the literary career of Radclice graduate Lorna Lowery Slocumbe, whose story on HDC "Among the Patronesses" appears in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly...
...spawned a successor, called in this more dignified era, the Harvardians. In keeping with its name, the newer group is smoother and more suave than were the hell-for-leather Gold Coasters. Many of the old jump arrangements saved from former times by Harvardian trumpeter, George Springer, whose career started back in the Randloph days, have been regretfully left in their covers, apparently unwanted by the jaded dancers of the late forties. The musicians have had to work off their excess energy on fast waltzes, rumbas and sambas. Answering the current demand for gentility in dance music, leader Bob Herman...
...tragedy is one that haunts the imagination no matter how much or how little is known of his life. Hervey Allen's Israfel cleared up most of the legendary mysteries of his career without making the poet himself any less strange, or unearthly a character. This handsome two-volume edition of Poe's letters, the work of John Ward Ostrom (associate professor of English at Wittenberg College), is essential to every serious student of Poe's career; but on the basis of this collection alone the reader might well form a picture of America's greatest...
Novelist's Poetry. Meredith's career was full of such prodigies of creation. He sometimes had two or three novels going at once, while he also read manuscripts for the publishing house of Chapman & Hall (he was their chief reader, and discovered Hardy), wrote poetry, and lived a reasonably full social life. His friends were critics and editors, poets like Swinburne, naval heroes like Admiral Frederick Maxse, or permanent officials in the Treasury, like Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. "Socially, they were swells; but they were unaffluent and unconventional swells...