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...dean commented, "None of our girls are pining away." They date both graduate and undergraduate students, and the only problem, Judy Fiorello of Vassar remarked, "is having enough time to go out with a boy a second time." Another girl, a lithe brunette, computed that she had an average of five different dates a week. Few girls participate in Yale extra-curricular activities. "Most of our spare time is taken up in dates," a pretty blonde noted...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Danny looks like a weird blend of Napoleon and Fiorello H. LaGuardia, sings as cornily as Al Jolson did, speaks as if he forgot to gargle before keynoting a dockers' meeting. His trademark is his preposterous nose ("If you're going to have a nose, you ought to have a real one"). But the U.S.'s currently favorite tele-comedian, boasting no single towering talent, succeeds as a funnyman mostly because his humor seems to well up from a sizable heart. Or, as Danny Thomas puts it, citing his favorite philosopher, Lebanese Mystic Kahlil (The Prophet) Gibran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Treacle Cutter | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...former Chase Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, was born in New York City, educated at Harvard ('36), with postgraduate study at the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1940. After a spell as secretary to New York's rambunctious Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and three years in the Army (private to captain), Rockefeller in 1946 went into the bank (in which his family and the Rockefeller Foundation own roughly 5% of the stock, the largest single block). He was appointed a senior vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...York University Law School), it came time for Jack Javits to make his own decision about party affiliation. He remembered how his father had been sent vote-buying by Tammany-and Jack became a Republican. He was a devoted and active follower of that able, highly eccentric Republican Fiorello La Guardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Threads of Power | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...Fiorello H. La Guardia, widow of New York's onetime Fusion mayor, a member of Citizens for Eisenhower in 1952, will become a national vice chair man of the Volunteers for Stevenson Kefauver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who's for Whom | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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