Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming! He is coming! He is going to choke me!" If another girl went to her aid, she was soon being choked too. Some girls complained of being pricked by needles, would thereupon go into a frenzy of body slapping, giggling, jumping and screaming. "One night," says an instructor, "was the worst ever. The girls punched, screamed, laughed until the noise was enough to drive...
...Malcolm was Lederle's research director. Since 1955, he has been boss of all sales and market development for Cyanamid's chain of 40 plants producing a widely diversified line of 6,000 products. ¶ James O. Plinton, World War II ferry pilot and flight instructor of the wartime 99th Fighter Squadron (all Negro) at Tuskegee, Ala., became executive assistant to the director of personnel and industrial relations of Trans World Airlines-one of the few Negroes in an executive capacity in a major U.S. airline. Though T.W.A. had no comment, insiders say that Airman Plinton will help...
...never really was a rebel, then or later. Says a friend: "No vine leaves in his hair -the Greeks are not in him.'3-Even Cozzens' career as a Harvard ('26) hell-raiser was brief. At Harvard he was part of a splinter intelligentsia-Poet-Instructor Robert Hillyer, Classicist Dudley Fitts et al.-and kept flailing away at a novel that appeared early in his sophomore year. Aptly titled Confusion, it concerned a shimmering young sylph named Cerise D'Atreé who was caught in the Fitzgerald undertow and dragged to an early Jazz Age death...
Chock Full o' Guts. By 1941, when she was 13, Althea was ready to graduate from paddle tennis. The PAL instructor that year was an unemployed musician named Buddy Walker, and Buddy was impressed with the gangly youngster's ferocious skill. He went to a friend named Van Houton (a tennis buff who liked to boast that he was the only self-employed racket stringer in Harlem), bought Althea a pair of secondhand rackets, and put her to work practicing against the wall of a handball court. A few weeks later he took her uptown to some public...
...thought of a career as a nightclub singer or musician (Sugar Ray bought her a saxophone). Then, in the summer of 1946, Althea moved up to the women's division of the Negro A.T.A. national championships. She was beaten in the finals by Roumania Peters, a Tuskegee Institute instructor, but her tremendous potential as a tennis player caught the attention of two A.T.A. officials: Dr. Robert Johnson, a general practitioner from Lynchburg, Va., and Dr. Hubert Eaton, a surgeon from Wilmington, N.C. Dr. Johnson took Althea aside and asked bluntly: "How'd you like to play at Forest...