Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philip M. Cronin 53, Interim Rent Control Administrator, defended his rent control guidelines last night before a crowd of 250 people in a meeting more like an unruly ninth grade algebra class than a City Council hearing...
...when I went to Dartmouth College, it was a recapitulation of the same process of identification. The Ruskinian-Romanesque college chapel at Dartmouth had been built in the memory of an ancestor of mine, Daniel Gustavus Rollins. I had been reading the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine since the fourth grade, had attended football games played by my brother Phillip, had heard of my father's kicking a field goal which helped Dartmouth beat Princeton in 1929. With all of this lore behind me, I studied the freshman manual, learned all of the Dartmouth songs before I arrived on campus, never went...
...California, studied political science at Santa Barbara State College, joined the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor, and spent two years as an ensign on a sub chaser in the Aleutians. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Southern California Law School, where he compiled the highest first-year grade average in the school's history to that time...
Sport is different, and Mullin admits to membership in the "hip-hip-hooray" school. It all started in a seventh-grade classroom in Los Angeles. "A teacher spotted my drawings in the margin of a textbook and sent me to the principal," he recalls. "The principal said, 'What's to become of you?' and I said, 'Well, I'm going to be a sports cartoonist.' " He learned lettering as a department store artist, and after an apprenticeship of cleaning paste pots and doing layout retouching for various newspapers became a semiregular cartoonist...
...Kids (50? a copy) is running decidedly in the red. Without advertising, the first edition of 60,000 copies cost $13,000 and left its adult founders in debt. But Jim Robinson, 34, a former fifth-grade teacher, and Jenette Kahn, 23, a freelance art critic, are optimistic. Recently Kahn noted, "The orders are coming at a rate of 50 a day. If that keeps up for a few months, we might get out of the financial bind...