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...tiger. Meanwhile, the university has spread its influence far beyond its own borders. Last year 1,000 adults took its special nine-week mining course; 1,000 students are now enrolled at its branch community colleges in Anchorage and Ketchikan; 1,100 study at its military branches at Eielson, Ladd and Elmendorf air bases...
Founded and financed by Mrs. William S. Ladd, widow of the dean of the Cornell Medical College, the institute was born none too soon. In the last 50 years, the number of people over 65 has increased twice as fast as the rate of the population in general; by 1950 they had reached the 12 million mark. Their pensions and savings cut by inflation, some face years of dependency. But more important is their feeling that they have outlived their usefulness. Last week, as the institute's second class got set to face the world again, its twelve members...
Motion Picture Herald, which polls the men who should know-the exhibitors-found John Wayne the No. 1 box-office draw, although Wayne made only two films eligible in 1954: Hondo and The High and the Mighty. Runners-up: Martin and Lewis, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Marilyn Monroe. Alan Ladd, William Holden (first time to figure in the first ten), Bing Crosby. Jane Wyman (first time), Marlon Brando (first time...
...nowe is al Reasoun disperplyd, for lo! ther rideth out of the Weste upon usse Sir Alaine the Ladd, whych is siccar the most onnatural knight that ever was my doole to see. Ho! Ho! For hee kann not gat his legs arounde a propre Hors, beeing knocken knee. Therfor muste an other ryde into battail in his stead, whiles hee sits pyght and pritty on a woodan tubbe ycovred in hors hyde, and doth preetende to make the onslaught-slishe! slashe!-a-straking o' the air on's Sworde, and a-brasting of's cheekes...
...more, nor kann this knight e'en parler ye Englysshe langue, bot muttereth mayhappe in Frensshe, as, 'Yagottalissena me. Englans gonnabeen vaded.' Aye, say'st'ou, but when ye Ladd doth feutre him into Patricia's chambre for love's sake, aye, what then? What then bot shende and shame to the Table Round! for hee doth take Discretioun for ye bettre part of Valoure...