Word: maters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most famous son have such impassioned defenders as in New York City, which at last count boasted 858,601 citizens of Italian descent but only 36,794 Norwegian-Americans. Yale-educated Congressman John Lindsay Republican candidate for mayor, made it sound as if Columbia had been his alma mater all along. "Saying that Columbus did not discover America," declared Lindsay, "is as silly as saying DiMaggio doesn't know anything about baseball or that Toscanini and Caruso were not great musicians." Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose son, Steven, has a Norwegian wife, at first voyaged rather bravely into the controversy...
...Kansas City Star that the paper's register of alumni has earned it a reputation as one of the top journalism schools in the U.S. Last week 177 former I.W.A.T.S. (short for I Worked at the Star) went back to Kansas City to pay tribute to their alma mater and its longtime editor, Roy A. Roberts, 77, who retired last January. The occasion was the 85th anniversary of the Star, but the star attraction was Roberts. Amid steaks, Bloody Marys, speeches, reminiscences and a Sigma Delta Chi award to the Star, guests could hardly decide whether they were more...
...noble alma mater Higher than Cornell...
...Miles College. The Birmingham concert that night was well-attended and the reception that followed was memorable for the numbers that were participating and the spirit that was in the air as informal singing developed, led by students from Miles and Harvard. A visit to Mr. Epps's alma mater, Talladega College, was another high point of the tour. Archie Epps was a co-leader in these musical occasions...
...King of the Junkies." For Cabot, the work on his alma mater's portfolio is a labor of love. A descendant of George Cabot (1752-1823), a Federalist leader and one of Massachusetts' first U.S. Senators, Paul Cabot naturally entered Harvard and received an M.B.A. from the business school, before he went into investing. Cabot collected so much scrap metal as salvage director of the War Production Board that his friend Douglas Dillon called him "the king of the junkies...