Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the non-mathematical criteria, however, a recent article in Harper's Magazine by Martin Mayer, which referred consistently to the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board, revealed one statistic that seems to give the 'Cliffes an academic edge over their Harvard colleagues: Radcliffe is the second most "selective" college in the country. The only college outranking it is not Harvard, but Caltech...
...good news flashed through Madison, Ind. (pop. 10,500) like summer heat lightning. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was coming to town to shoot a $2,500,000 production of James Jones's bad bestselling novel, Some Came Running. Local businessmen came running with promises not to raise prices; local police pitched in to protect M-G-M props; the country club and five hotels and motels were turned over to the movie folk. Nothing so exciting had happened to the green, hilly little Ohio River town since P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind to sing in the Pork Palace...
...WMGM is a sister subsidiary to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer under Loew...
...Board of Preachers will reach its full complement of six members again, as the result of the appointment of Wallace Woodsome Robbins and Frederick Mayer Meek, announced last night by Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University. Both appointments were made with the unanimous concurrence of the present members of the Board...
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER hankers to make Hollywood's first move into live TV. Negotiations with TV's Robert (Omnibus) Saudek are getting warm, and plan is for joint production of six 60-to-90-minute spectaculars costing $350,000 each during 1958-59 season...