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...majorettes. She radiates enthusiasm for school and is one of a small number of African-American students in the advanced-placement classes at Grady High School. "There are others that could do it," she says, "but they get caught up in the stereotypical, 'AP, that's nerdy.'" Physics teacher Delphia Bryant admires Enjolique's can-do spirit: "She's one of those people who will rule the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make A Better Student: Their Eight Secrets of Success | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...Delphia--jazz group, Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: February 22-28 | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...willingness to incur debt-or perhaps the real sequence went the other way around. In any case, installment debt rose 10% in 1976, and Salomon Brothers, a leading Wall Street investment house, predicts that it will shoot up 12% this year. Says Lacy Hunt, a vice president at Phila delphia's Fidelity Bank: "The ability of the consumer to take on more debt will be the underpinning of the economy, in 1977. This year is the year of consumer credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...homicide rate higher than that of New York City," it is gratuitous and unfair to cite New York for that tragic comparison. The fact is that among the nation's major cities, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Phila delphia all have 1973 homicide rates higher than New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1973 | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...come to this: last week a student organist in Phila delphia refused to play a long-honored hymn that most Protestants have never given second thought to: On ward, Christian Soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Anniversaries | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

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