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...Cora Louise Sutherland had always been a thin, wiry type, but in 1951 she developed a hacking cough and lost weight steadily. Each day she taught shorthand to three classes totaling more than 70 pupils at Los Angeles' Van Nuys High School. Students and fellow teachers whispered, but nobody knew what ailed her. For Cora Sutherland was a Christian Scientist. Instead of submitting a chest X ray every three years (as do all but about 100 of LosAngeles' 13,000 teachers), she turned in an affidavit declaring herself free of communicable disease...
...Cora Du Bois, an anthropologist, will succeed the retiring Helen Maud Cam as Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor, the College and Radcliffe announced yesterday...
Shohet may have lost his camera, while another photographer, Edward M. Borges '54, had his ROTC hat, gloves, and Cora destroyed...
...selling itself by weight. Much of Sammy Fain's music has genuine bounce and swing. But under the handicap of its surroundings, it often suggests the playroom with the radio going. A so-so cast includes Singer Yma Sumac, whose voice spans four octaves. It is Bil & Cora Baird's puppets that are much the gayest, most stylish, least wooden things in the show...
...University of Pittsburgh while working at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute. At the institute, Reid did research for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., after nine years' work on esters succeeded in producing Vinylite, the plastic now used for shower curtains, combs, etc. In 1943, Reid, a Kansan, joined Cora Products (maker of Karo syrup, Mazola oil, etc.) as a vice president, during the war served as chemicals boss...