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...Lowell's program had been to educate students into ideals of public service. Thus their sparce, grave Commencement was oddly logical. For the students who had favored duty to country and universal conscription were far from "gentlemen scholars." William H. Meeker, who had been the President of the CRIMSON during that year, died the following September, 1917, at Pau, France. Like many who were absent at graduation, the Class Poet William Wilcox '17, mailed in his poem from the Newport News aviation camp. There was no Ivy Oration; the Orator, Henry Wentworth, was away in training camp...
Skinny Years. The pursuit of perfection began at the age of five when Heston played his first role in the one-room schoolhouse he attended in northern Michigan. At Northwestern University, he worked with Classmates Patricia Neal and Ralph Meeker, met another hopeful actress, Lydia Clarke, who has been his wife for 22 years. After some skinny years in Manhattan, he got a supporting role in Katharine Cornell's Antony and Cleopatra ("Miss Cornell is a tall woman and likes to have tall actors around"). From there, it was roles in TV and a lead in his first film...
...forgot two outstanding teachers at the University of Alaska: Dr. J. Meeker and Dr. W. Hollerbach...
...like to take a rest, but the police won't let me," he said in one of his meeker moments, "I'm just doing the job no one else will...
...Ralph Meeker bestows a mangled dignity on a simple man's right not to think But TV's ubiquitous Arlene Francis What's My Line?) is a 21 -inch actress on a 30-foot stage. Husband or lover, or playgoer, they are all panel guests...