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...Named for Lawyer John W. Sterling, an eccentric, meticulous bachelor who helped defend such famous 19th century figures as Jim Fisk and Henry Ward Beecher, willed his entire fortune of $16 million to Yale...
...undergraduate level, the authors rate only a handful of Negro schools as exceptions to the role of inferiority. They put Fisk, Morehouse, Spelman, Hampton, Howard, Tuskegee, Dillard, Texas Southern and Morgan State "near the middle of the national academic procession." A few of these schools, they point out, are good enough to attract white students and eventually they may lose their identity as basically Negro schools...
Gibson began paring down the number of skiers sent to races three weeks ago, when he sent fewer than he had originally planned to the Fisk Trophy Race...
...chief of detectives after Parker died, Reddin took a battery of tests-for the top post that pitted him against Inspector James G. Fisk, the department's articulate chief of community relations. Fisk had toiled to heal the wounds of Watts, sending white-Negro police teams into ghetto schools, running workshops for gang members, assigning patrolmen to walk around meeting people and "dispel stereotypes." On the test scores, Fisk beat Reddin by a hairline half of 1%. The city's five police commissioners nonetheless picked Reddin for his overall depth and breadth. As deputy chief, Fisk will expand...
...winning play is based on the unlikely life-story of Jim Fisk, whose remarkable coups in the world of finance culminated in his death-by-duel in 1876. Prince Erie will be the first musical (or semi-musical) to win the Anderson award...