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...Good Ship Cole Porter, the decks awash with tap-dancing sailors, happy-go-lucky heroes wooing smitten but duty-bound heiresses, evangelists turned nightclub singers, and lovable gangsters on the lam, accompanied by accommodating molls. If you're human, you might be tempted to stuff the damn diploma and sail off with them, paired up with an attractive dancing partner and immersed in some of the best show music this side of heaven...
...whatever the pleasures of Milan in the late '30s, the countervailing fact was that Steinberg, a Jew?and a foreign Jew at that?was living under a Fascist regime which grew more anti-Semitic by the week. He graduated as a Dottore in Architettura in 1940; and on his diploma, awarded in the name of Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, King of Albania and (thanks to Mussolini and his bombers) Emperor of Ethiopia, was written "Steinberg Saul... di razza Ebraica "(of the Jewish race). "It was some kind of safeguard for the future, meaning that although...
...much attention out of East Brunswick, but it had seemed like about a two minute jaunt to the last stop. Having successfully completed high school algebra, I figured that translated to a 15 minute trot back, in time for the next bus. I should turn in my high school diploma, because when half an hour had passed and no bus station appeared on the horizon I began to revise my estimated time of arrival upwards, once again...
...brassy veteran of Broadway and Hollywood, the author of five books, and she has served as a special adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations-all without getting a high school diploma. "Believe me, I was a very smart cookie," says Pearl Bailey, who calls herself "more of a philosopher than an entertainer." At 59, Bailey has decided to get a college diploma, and enrolled last week at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University, where she plans to major in French and squeeze in classes in Islam, Egyptian art and philosophy. Drama is out, she says, because...
...games keep growing and becoming more realistic, we will no longer need technical schools. Just select an occupation, play the game for a couple of years and have the company send us a diploma...