Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With its first 556 winners safely installed on 160 campuses across the U.S., N.M.S. is planning to test 135,000 high-school seniors this month, and with at least seven more companies giving support, it will raise the number of scholarships to about 700. Says its Vice President Edward C. Smith: "We are locating and establishing a real sacred-cow group...
...such distinguished visitors as the future Edward VII. an inspection of Cooper Union was a must. As the years went by, everyone from Mark Twain to Woodrow Wilson to Bertrand Russell lectured there. The Union gave Inventor Michael Pupin his start in life; it trained Sculptor Saint-Gaudens. Its library was the favorite haunt of an immigrant boy named Felix Frankfurter. "It was the place." said Frankfurter later, "that first stretched my mind...
...17th century Dutch masters, France's Chardin and Spanish Painter Zurbaran. Far from being a drab assortment of pots and pans, dead hares and Dutch ham, the exhibit does much to prove that minor them do not preclude a major work. Says Milwaukee Art Institute Director Edward H. Dwight of their intimate yet forceful quality: "The still life is to the painter what the quartet to the composer...
...shirt (in the play he was accused of lying naked on the beach with a school master who was generally suspected of homosexuality). The story goes the rounds, and soon the other fellows are calling him "Sister Boy.'' Tom's father (Edward Andrews), an umbilical undergraduate, who after 25 years is still unable to cut the old school tie. is bitterly disappointed that his boy is not a "regular guy.'' On a visit to school, he urges Tom to get himself a crew cut like the rest of the fellows, forces him to give...
...precocious youngsters crowded Philip's court. Two of his three sons were deceived by their highborn wives, who paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their lovers were broken on the wheel, flayed alive, castrated and decapitated. His intriguing daughter Isabella was unhappily married to Edward II of England, a king who would rather drape his arm with "suspect familiarity" around a young workman than em brace his queen. Courtiers, prelates, Lom bard bankers and the rising burghers scrabbled greedily for power...