Word: job
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moneymaking. Gifted with a rich contralto, she frequently sang, without thought of fee, at society charity events. Singing at a heart-clinic benefit at the Place Pigalle nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street in 1934, she so impressed the manager that he offered her a paying job. So began a four-year career as a torch singer, which took her into the spotlights of Manhattan's flossiest nightclubs, brought upwards of $1,000 a week. Symington, a lot less famous in those years than his wife, followed her nightclub trail, building up an undeserved reputation...
...Bagnoli. Forbush is extremely competent in the nets, but he lacks Bagnoli's field generalship and experience. The rapid, hard-shooting Tiger line will give him plenty of opportunities to prove himself. As Munro put it, "We'll know in the first quarter whether Forbush can handle the job...
Even among many who would like to see the General Education requirement eliminated, there is feeling in favor of the program. Professor Brower, who feels that the job can be done by the departments if they are carefully supervised, says of the committee, "It has fulfilled a function that nothing else has fulfilled--someplace where people think about what is happening to the average undergraduate...
...Redbook, impractical though it may have been, presented a clear educational policy. When courses multiplied, the Redbook lost its meaning, and General Education is now feeling the results. Unless a new and meaningful policy can be formed, Faculty members will continue to think that the departments can do the job of General Education, and the program will lose whenever a decision must be made...
Certainly, the College should be as solicitous--or, more correctly, as effective--in providing information to the scholars and teachers that it will need as it is in dispensing job leads to next year's Raytheon engineers and application hints to future Johns Hopkins graduates