Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago last week, Northwestern University's Dr. Paul Witty credited Quiz Kids with having "erased any idea that the gifted child is usually a peculiar, eccentric misfit." He was speaking to a peculiarly receptive audience: some 235 past and present Quiz Kids who were gathered to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the program's first appearance on the air. Some of the earliest Quiz Kids are now parents (one has three children). So far, the grown-up prodigies have met none of the dire fates that are often predicted for precocious sprouts: not one has cracked up mentally...
...Jesuit priest; Harve Fischman, 21, has just graduated from UCLA where he wrote, directed and acted in the senior class play; Claude Brenner, 23, does aeronautical engineering research at M.I.T.; Ruthie Duskin, 18, already has one book to her credit (Chemi, the Magician), and took top honors at Northwestern's School of Journalism. Smylla Brind, 24. changed her name to Vanessa Brown and has appeared as a bright-looking ingenue in such movies as The Late George Apley and The Heiress...
...companies of northwestern Colombia, the Motilon Indians of the jungle-tangled mountains are an industrial hazard. The Motilones (mo-tee-loan-es) ambush trucks, shoot 6-ft. arrows through the oilmen's tents-and sometimes through the oilmen. What is worse, they give the oilworkers' union a hard-to-answer argument for extra hazard...
...home and for bakers, grew so fast that in 1949 Pillsbury opened a new plant. Last week Pillsbury's rewarded Paul S. Gerot, 49, the crack salesman who had put over the quick mixes. It made him president. Gerot, who came to Pillsbury fresh out of Northwestern University and swiftly climbed the ladder as a salesman, succeeds Philip Pillsbury, 49, who moved up to board chairman after 12 years as president. His father, John S. Pillsbury, 74, moved out of the chairmanship and became "honorary chairman...
...Northwestern men were disciplined because they wrote an editorial calling for the dismissal of a women's counsellor at the school...