Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri's Symington plays it safe. As a U.S. Senator, he has proved himself a master at not making enemies. With his authority as Harry Truman's Air Force Secretary (1947-50), he has spoken up determinedly for stronger national defense. Organized labor rates him as one of twelve Senators with a "perfect" voting record; yet. as the onetime board chairman of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., Symington is viewed benignly by businessmen. His close personal and political friends range from Convair Vice President Tom Lanphier to the Electrical Workers' President Jim Carey...
...cigarette gives its body, And allows itself to be kissed, Until it becomes ashes All for its master...
...number of women undergraduates at Yale is small; nine in the Master of Arts in Teaching program and a few in the School of Music. The girls in the MAT received a great deal of publicity last spring when it was announced that selected students from Smith and Vassar would spend their senior year at Yale. They will receive a B.A. from their own college but upon completion of a second year at Yale will obtain an MAT degree...
...seems strange that one's image of Aristide Maillol is that of an elderly man, of the master of Banyuls-sur-Mer as the bearded patriarch living his solitary existence. The idea of Maillol as a youth is one which never comes to mind, though his work richly exudes the exuberance and fecundity of whatever is truly young...
...elections over, the rushees become "pledges," and rushing makes way for "pledging." This lasts for about a month, and each future brother is provided with a "pledge father." The pledge father is subordinate to the "pledge master," who runs the pledging. The pledges are obliged to do such things as scrub floors and wear Linus blankets and suck their thumbs. But frequently they become unhappy in their work, and last year one pledge master was chained to a parking meter in front of the state capital, while another taskmaster was packed on a plane for California...