Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the states at Columbia Prep, and later at the University of Portland and Spokane's Gonzaga University, Mike played baseball (first base), gave up a chance to turn pro, went on instead to Notre Dame for his law degree. After that, he put in 3-½-years on Navy desk duty, was discharged a yeoman third class...
...unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.). He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez was kidnaped on his way home from giving a Columbia University lecture on March 12, 1956, drugged, and flown to a small airport in the Dominican Republic by American Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 22, who was later silenced by murder in Trujilloland...
...thing a pressagent cannot provide is a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia University. This week Columbia's School of General Studies gave one to Pat Boone, boy singer (at 24, a whopping 20 million records claimed for him by Dot Records). Bland, brown-haired Pat has confounded the swamp dwellers of the music world because he leads a blameless home life, and he has delighted parents of teen-agers because, although he sometimes sings rock 'n' roll, he sings it in a damply pleasant voice and does not keep time with pelvic spasms...
...David Lipscomb College with the idea of becoming a teacher or a Church of Christ minister (he has given sermons as a lay preacher, dislikes nightclub dates because his church frowns on drinking and dancing). He studied for a while at North Texas State College, signed on at Columbia in 1956 as a speech major, English minor. Among his senior year courses: chamber music, third year Greek, history and theory of music, movie production. Extracurricular activities: recording sessions, rehearsals for his limp but likable TV show, ukulele concerts for his wife-who is his own age-and four daughters...
This Angry Age (De Laurentiis; Columbia). "There were many children in the plain," wrote Marguerite Duras in The Sea Wall (TIME, March 16, 1953), the brutally beautiful French novel about Indo-China on which this film is based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they...