Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to three Radcliffe students: Wilda M. Marraffino, to study Modern Italian History in Rome; Laura Maslow to study French History and Literature at Marseilles; and Mrs. Renee E. Watkins to study History in Florence...
...just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome's new expatriates is Detroit-born Zubel Kachadoorian, 35, who formerly worked part time as a construction worker, while his artist wife, Irma Cavat, padded out the budget as a waitress. Now, with a Prix de Rome and a Fulbright between them, they are both fulltime painters. San Francisco-born James Leong, who supports his wife and children on concurrent Guggenheim and Fulbright grants, rediscovered his own Chinese heritage in Rome, now turns out paintings of figures that one critic noted "look as though they are wrapped in dry leaves...
Question: "Did you make good grades?" Answer: "Well, I believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
...Excursion. Fulbright kept boring in, drew an admission that Reid had not graduated with his class because his senior thesis had been unsatisfactory. Purred Fulbright: "What was the thesis about?" Said Reid in a small voice: "The thesis was about lobbying, sir, lobbying in Congress." A little later Fulbright began reading excerpts from an Esquire article about Brownie Reid's Yale career. Among them, quoting a Yale roommate's recollection: "Brownie didn't spend more than a dozen nights on campus, and to keep in physical condition he relied on bar bells and flying his Widgeon...
Finished with his excursion into Brownie's schooldays, Fulbright began probing into Reid's business affairs-and those of the Herald Tribune, owned for years by the Reid family, but recently taken over by U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Hay Whitney. Did Reid think he had "worked" his way up to his position as publisher? Well, he had worked on general assignment for a year, been responsible for the Trib's European edition for six years. Had not the paper lost $800,000 last year? Reid admitted it was "in the red." Asked Fulbright sarcastically: "In view...