Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that followed showed that the type casting of some twenty years had kept back a real talent, but Bogie's popularity fell when he ceased to play the symbol. At the time of his death in 1955 he presided over his own rather sophisticated "rat pack" as a Hollywood elder statesman...
...four to be honored are: Gordon G. Bensley, art teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover; Mrs. Florence L. Elder mathematics teacher at West Hempstead, N.Y.; Miss Helen Green-wood, English teacher at Lamar Senior High School, Houston, Texas; and Arne H. Gronningsater, English teacher at Riverdale Country School in New York City...
Phelps also noted that this is the first year GSAS scholarships for both men and women will be administrated from the same office. While Dean Elder and President Bunting told the Board of Overseers in March that women's grants were lower than those for men, Phelps indicated that there have been no problems in scholarship allotments as a result of the GSAS-Radcliffe Graduate School merger...
Died. Van Wyck Brooks, 77, critic, literary historian and elder statesman of American letters, a deeply reflective, painfully slow writer who is best known for his massive, five-volume Makers and Finders; A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915, which took him 20 years to write and spans American literature from Washington Irving to William Faulkner; of cancer; in Bridgewater, Conn. As a critic of his culture, Brooks argued that much of American writing was second rate, that U.S. materialism thwarted genius, and that the true fulfillment of America is yet to come. That it would come...
...elder Oehrlein has beaten Yale's Mike Neely, who managed to beat Sullivan last year. Brother A1, playing at number two, has beaten Princeton's Harold German and must rank as a real threat in today's tilt...