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...always known that The Princeton Review is the best in test preparation," said Boston Executive Director of The Princeton Review Brett A. Gordon...
...Gordon said the most important result of the arbitration was the establishment of a "preferred" method to determine average improvements in test scores...
Measuring the companies by this new standard, Gordon said, the victor in this round of arbitration is Princeton Review...
Show biz arrived in 1939, when an aspiring actress named Judy Holliday stepped into the club to get out of the rain. Holliday got to talking to Gordon and persuaded him to give her and a couple of pals, Adolph Green and Betty Comden, a showcase for a revue of patter borrowed from the likes of No?l Coward. Last week Comden recalled how her musical-comedy career with Green "all started right here, when someone told us we should be paying royalties, and we belatedly realized we had to write our own stuff...
...1940s the Vanguard was a launching pad for black folk singers like Leadbelly, Josh White and Harry Belafonte. Pete Seeger arrived with the Weavers in 1949. That year Gordon married a woman who was an ardent jazz fan, and by the end of the '50s the Vanguard had become the world's premier showcase for modern jazz at the highest level. Gordon had a genius for discovering talent very early, recalls his 72-year-old widow Lorraine, who has run the club since he died in 1989. "That's why people like Wynton Marsalis still come back every year...