Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A man who knows the Atlantic almost as well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two...
To celebrate her 20-year climb from a Newark church choir to the prestige-drenched Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, organ-toned Songstress Sarah Vaughan rushed out and bought a $60,000 house in suburban New Jersey. One feature: a set of entrance chimes (cost: $450...
On many a college campus, a C is still a fashionable grade for a bright young man whose pursuit of fun often overrules his search for knowledge. But not any longer at Massachusetts' Amherst College. There "gentleman C" and even B students whose performances do not measure up to...
Picking from faculty suggestions of shirker sophomores and juniors, Amherst Dean C. Scott Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave...
Underlying Amherst's plan to make its students fulfill their promise, said President Cole, is the basic problem of higher education's becoming "an increasingly scarce commodity." With 50% more freshmen seeking admission by 1965, he explained, "colleges will be more and more careful not to permit a...