Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, on his way back to Europe after the Goethe Bicentennial festival in Aspen, Colo., stopped off at the University of Chicago to pick up an honorary LL.D.
Greta Garbo, off to Europe where she will seriously consider making her first movie in eight years (Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais), made a standard Garbo exit. Dressed in black and hidden under a large mushroom-shaped hat, she slipped aboard the Queen Elizabeth, ahead of the crowds...
Parents' Clubs. Soft-spoken Principal Schwertz, a product of New Orleans schools himself (before going to Loyola University of the South), soon began to change things. He wanted a playground, and went direct to Beauregard parents for the money. Before long, he had enough to cover the muddy schoolyard...
Kids should work to learn, Schwertz argued, not to get A's or B's. So he did away with the old system of report cards. Then he abolished automatic annual promotions. His pupils, he declared, would advance as fast or as slowly as they were able. In...
One of the few who thought Wisconsin Boy had a chance in Chicago's rich ($74,975) Arlington Futurity was Owner W. M. Peavey, a paper-mill operator from Ladysmith, Wis. His Wisconsin Boy romped home, paying $38 for $2. At Detroit, a longshot named Our Request ($23.60) galloped...