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...Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction, and Dr. Albert Sabin, 57, who developed the oral polio vaccine, both recipients of $40,000 Antonio Feltrinelli awards presented by the Lincei National Academy, Italy's leading arts and sciences institute...
...godfathers of Thayer Academy's Institute of Asian Studies are energetic Headmaster Gordon O. Thayer* 52, and Henry Courtenay Fenn, 68, a renowned linguist who retires this month as director of Yale's prestigious Institute of Far Eastern Languages. Gordon Thayer's incentive to teach Chinese came from his language problems in another important part of the world. Eastern Europe. Lecturing (with the help of an interpreter) through a cultural exchange program two years ago, Thayer realized how little Americans know of Eastern European language and culture-and how much less they must know about Asia. Back...
While considering the project, Carnegie officials naturally turned to Henry Fenn for advice on testing and curriculum. Fenn responded with the enthusiasm of a man who has fought for years to introduce "remote languages" (e.g., Chinese, Arabic, Swahili) into high schools. The China-born son of American missionaries, Fenn has spent 40 years teaching in the U.S. and China. During World War II Yale drafted him to help establish its "blitz" language program, which crammed U.S. soldiers with conversational Chinese in four months. Many of the high schools that have introduced Chinese have done so under Fenn's prodding...
...Fenn's blitz is described by one teacher as "memorize, memorize, memorize. Listen and memorize, say and memorize, see and memorize."Even the most enthusiastic Thayer student realizes he will eventually sigh: "Wo hen lei [I am very tired...
...week of Noel Coward's new musical comedy, Sail Away. The show will open in Manhattan Oct. 3, but first Coward's story, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, and much of it seemed wooden to Boston critics. But Elaine Stritch, as the cruise hostess, is full of verve. Joe Layton's choreography is superb, and the lyrics are delightful...