Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even by the standards of Diamantina, the Kubitschek family was poor. When Júlia had taught her son all she could, she persuaded Diamantina's Roman Catholic seminary to take him as a pupil at a reduced tuition fee. On his first day of school, Juscelino, then eleven, put on his first pair of shoes, bought with money earned as a grocer's errand boy. Recalls one of his seminary teachers: "I never saw such a remarkable memory in a child. He could recite an entire page by heart after reading it once. He was not what...
...final plans submitted ranged from a single eleven-story building for dormitories with an adjacent building containing dining and commons facilities, to a group of eight or nine small three-story buildings, each housing about 36 students. In between were such ideas as duplex apartments and a larger building containing many small entries, a plan similar to that of the present Houses...
Pitfalls on the Path. Patterson's path from Manhattan's slums to his high skill as a professional boxer was filled with pitfalls. As a boy Floyd was "a lonely, disturbed and defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan...
Cowell: Symphony No. 10 (Vienna Orchestral Society, conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). With five of his eleven symphonies recorded, California-born Henry Cowell, 58, now has more symphonies on disks than any other U.S. composer. No. 10 has a fine, outdoorsy spirit, a readily understandable style, and some feeling of weight. But its six movements are too loosely wrought to be called a symphony in the classical sense...
...President John A. Barr, who changed Ward's cautious, old-fashioned approach to selling, renovated hundreds of stores and laid plans to add 100 new catalogue-order offices, stepped up advertising, put new emphasis on installment selling. As a result, gross sales for 1955's final eleven months were up 10.1% to almost $1 billion, and are expected to grow even faster in 1956. Furthermore, the annual dividend was boosted from $3.50 to $4, plus a year-end extra...