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Word: lane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew Freshman John Robert Wagner at Cambridge's famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology began to wonder what had got into him. John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award for the class of '56. But for some reason John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Bright Boy | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...lose altitude. Without his firm and skilled hand, the net profit dropped 96.9% in the first nine months to only $170,000, despite an 11% rise in operating revenue. Last week T.W.A. Owner Howard Hughes finally found the man he hopes will pull T.W.A. out of its dive: Carter Lane Burgess, 39, Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: New Boss for T.W.A. | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...Within its limits, however, the production was highly competent. The orchestra sat in the middle of the Sanders stage, while the singers, in modern evening dress, sang on all sides of it. Aside from a reluctance to act as lustily as the text indicated, the cast, headed by Gloria Lane and Jon Crain, gave a good account of itself. The voices were sonorous and the singers pronounced Chester Kallman's translation very carefully. The opera's closing duet, "O Beloved," is one of the most lovely lyrical pieces ever written...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: Music Festival | 12/11/1956 | See Source »

...Burden '27; Charles C. Cabot '22; Thomas D. Cabot '19; William H. Claflin '15; Lammot duPont Copeland '27; John Cowles '21; Donald K. David, former dean of the Business School; Fredrick M. Eaton '27; Marshall Field Jr. '38; G. Peabody Gardner '10; Courtlandt S. Gross '27; R. Keith Lane '22; Roy E. Larsen '21; Neil H. McElroy '25; James J. Milton '13; Arthur W. Page '05; Paul C. Reardon '32; Geoffrey S. Smith '22; Edgar B. Stern '07; Robert G. Stone '20; Paul P. Swett, Jr. '32; Philip H. THeopold '25; John E. Toulmin '25; Frederick M. Warburg '19; Frederic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Appoints Body To Direct Fund Raising | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

...think about that? Did you? To get you out of that damned Proust style.' " Lowney, who only got past high school, takes a dim view of Proust, whom she calls "Frowst." Nor does she think much of "Kafkia" (Kafka), "Walter Stevens" (Wallace Stevens) or "Die-lane Thompson" (Dylan Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Housemother Knows Best | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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