Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oakland's first students (60% in the top quarter of their high school classes) may find the experience a bit prickly. All must live off campus; no dormitories have yet been built. The school will have no fraternities, sororities, ROTC or remedial courses. The only athletics will be voluntary...
The exam is mandatory for every child just past the age of eleven, except for those headed for the public schools such as Eton or Harrow. The exam (English composition, arithmetic, an IQ test) ruthlessly splits youngsters into three groups. The top 20% go to respected pre-university grammar schools...
A couple of Broadway turkeys slowed him hardly at all. He moved to Hollywood, began to grind out TV shows, a movie script and, finally, The Marriage-Go-Round. Everything he touched turned to money. And as he tried to fend off the tax collector, his corporate complex became as...
To learn the writer's craft, he ran away from a Washington, D.C. high school to tour with Orson Welles (a truant officer brought him home from Philadelphia); he put in a couple of years in stock, went to Yale Drama School. Then he moved hopefully to Broadway. "As...
Finer Instincts. The Brooklyn-born daughter of an Anglo-Irish professional boxer and a Bavarian mother, Mae got onstage early and has seldom been off. As an "innocently brazen" moppet of seven years, she projected exclusively toward "the men and boys." At eleven, she was being flirtatious with vaudeville hoofers...