Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 200 students, faculty, and alumni gathered yesterday at a Quincy House memorial service for former House Master David A. Aloian '49, who died of cancer on November...
...overflow crowd packed the Quincy House Junior Common Room to listen to the remembrances of University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, Quincy resident Susan E. Ordway '86-'87, former Senior Tutor Eliot A. Cohen '77, former Co-Master Mimi Aloian '52 and Elliot Forbes, Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus...
...gasps began at Sotheby's on Nov. 10, when Jasper John's Out the Window sold for $3.6 million, the highest sum ever paid for the work of a living artist. Last week the old master drawings owned by John Ryan Gaines, a Kentucky horse breeder and the son of the founder of the Gaines dog-food company, fetched $21 million. The top seller: Leonardo da Vinci's Child with a Lamb, a group of sketches in brown ink, which was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., for $3.6 million...
...Monroe was a black- draped table laden with miscellaneous memorabilia: a manila envelope containing a letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, two pairs of handcuffs, a selection of lockpicks, a yellowed photograph. Monroe's task: to contact, on the 60th anniversary of his death, the ghost of Harry Houdini, master escapologist, prestidigitator and Appleton's most celebrated son. While Monroe writhed and jerked, it must be noted, a block away the sign outside the Valley Bank effortlessly blinked out the message: WELCOME HOME HARRY HOUDINI HAPPY HALLOWEEN...
...meant," recalls his mother Florence Baccus. "I guess he gave them the right answers." Probably didn't miss one. He does not really plan to practice, though, maybe just take a few cases "when I'm between classes." He is up in New York City going for his master's, then Ph.D. in computer science and also writing a book on that subject. He may try to join the New York bar next year. About the only place he is having trouble getting in seems to be the Guinness Book of World Records. Asked to consider Stephen as a record...