Word: finch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irene burst forth in the playgirl mold, married an international socialite-sportsman named Freddie McEvoy, whose outdoor sport was bobsledding, and whose indoor hobby was cavorting with the Errol Flynn crowd. Charlene watched in wide-eyed wonder, but did not join in the fun. She went to Finch College in New York, where she won glowing good grades. At about the same time, her father was winning as a bride a California model named Jayne Larkin-only a few years older than Charlene...
...average, bright men are short, but I wouldn't refer to Caesar, Bonaparte, Mozart or Charlie Chaplin as bassotti. The only very tall bright men I can think of at the moment are President Lincoln, President Kennedy, De Gaulle and Dr. Clement A. Finch, world famous hematologist of Seattle, Washington...
...butterfly: 1) Clark-Y, 2:02.8; 2) Finch-Y; 3) Engelberg-H (new pool record. Old record 2:04.3 by Karetsky, Yale, 1961); 100-yd. freestyle: 1) Austin-Y, 48.4; 2) Rice-Y; 3) Skalinder-H (new pool record. Old record 48.6, by Kaufmann, Harvard, 1962); 200-yd. backstroke: 1) Goettsche-Y, 2:01.2; 2) Stevens-Y; 3) Bennett-H (new pool record. Old record 2:01.4 by Graef, Princeton, 1962); 500-yd. freestyle: 1) Abramson-H, 5:05.2; 2) Straw-Y; 3) Townsend-Y (new pool and Harvard record. Old records 2:13.7 by Abramson, Harvard...
...engage it with vital issues." In one recent year, a third of the students at Yale Divinity School were Phi Beta Kappas; of 39 students who entered Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary last year, 13 had IQs of 130 or more. At Vanderbilt, reports Dean William C. Finch, seminarians are "as a group equal to or better than" other graduate students...
Scout (Mary Badham) is six when the story begins, and her brother Jem (Phillip Alford) is ten. Their mother is dead, and they live with their father (Gregory Peck), a lawyer named Atticus Finch. One day they hear a peculiar squeak in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch...