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Under Allen, the School of Education earned a reputation as a diploma mill. In the past three years it granted more than 387 doctoral degrees. Some doctorates were awarded to students who had no undergraduate degrees. The writing in many doctoral theses was barely at high school level...
Happy End, a musical currently revived by New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater, is really a larky 1929 gangster movie. The setting is Chicago in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Charles Levin) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Elizabeth Parrish...
...Horse Shoe Bend, Idaho (pop. 700), Theodore Hoff Jr. closed his Hoff Lumber Co. mill last month because sales had fallen through the floor boards. In all, 325 workers were laid off, devastating the town's economy. Those workers-plus 80 more Hoff employees at a mill in Rexburg, Idaho-got together and figured out a plan to return to work. They decided to take a 10% pay cut, put off a scheduled 9% cost of living increase, and eliminate overtime pay. Result: by last week both the Horse Shoe Bend and Rexburg mills were working two shifts...
...Shawn, who "has become famous by eschewing fame and is today one of the best-known unknown men in the country." As self-effacing as Ross was extraverted, Shawn's best-known and perhaps only offhand mot was uttered to a young "Talk" reporter: "Go out and mill...
...biggest clients. A gregarious backslapper, Salter describes his main service to Jackson now as making certain that he "doesn't get too big for his britches." Salter lately has urged his friend to pay more attention to domestic affairs. He explains: "Some guy working in a paper mill in Everett can't even spell detente, but he knows that he can't afford to pay a doctor to get his kid's busted leg fixed...