Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After graduating from Kansas City's Westport High School in 1932, the girl clerked in the Kansas City Junior League Thrift Shop, later worked as a salesgirl and a model in Harzfeld's specialty shop. In 1938 she changed her name to Ann Eden and went to New York in search of fame. She was a Powers model. ("An all-round, wholesome-looking girl," recalls John Robert Powers. "We don't get calls for them like that any more. Nowadays they want a cadaverous look...
...work at 14 as a $5-a-week pad-shover (messenger-clerk) in Wall Street. A brilliant lad with a phenomenal memory, he studied the market, watched the rich and great of the Street in their buying. Soon he began to buy and win. At 18 he was a junior partner in an uncle's firm; in 1870, when he was 22, he had his own firm and a seat on the Exchange. Eventually, he became the "Little Giant" of Wall Street, one of the most successful and powerful financiers in U.S. history...
...convent in Seattle. She went East to Vassar (class of 1933), became a Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year, and married successively an actor called Harold Johnsrud (divorce), Edmund Wilson, the novelist-critic (divorce, one son, now 16), and finally Bowden Broadwater, an occasional writer some years her junior...
Sixteen members of the Senior Class were elected to Phi Beta Kappa on Thursday night, by the Junior Eight and faculty advisors. Winthrop and Kirkland Houses lead with three members apiece, while each of the other five Houses placed two on the list...
William H. Drury Jr. '42, assistant professor of Biology and a member of the Undergraduate Students and Studies Committee of the Biology department, asserted that the discussion and contact with the junior faculty members was "much better in laboratories than it could be in tutorial." He said that Eliot, Dunster, and Winthrop Houses already have biologists who are assigned advisees in their House. These men should try to get to know the men in their Houses without the formal pressure of a tutorial, he declared...