Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cloakroom Tyrant. At that point, the resemblance to other schools stopped. The Capitol Page School, an offshoot of the District of Columbia school system, is attended by the House's 49 page boys, the Senate's 21, the Supreme Court's four, and a few more Capitol-employed boys. School starts at 6:30 a.m. every weekday, lets out at 9:39 a.m.; work begins at 9:49 a.m., ends usually between 5 and 6 p.m. Homework is light. The student-pages are paid $246.95 a month; tuition is free...
...Street & Smith, which had folded Pic to give its press time and paper to Mademoiselle's Living (TIME, Oct. 11), decided to stop Living for a while. The slick-paper, homemaking magazine, an offshoot of Mademoiselle, hit a top circulation of 275,000. But S. & S. thought it was too costly to produce, not practical enough in its approach. In the fall, the editors plan to try Living again...
...single administrator, Walter Llewellyn Rees, a shrewd businessman who is drama director of the government's Arts Council. To handle the artistic end, they will name 35-year-old Hugh Hunt, an alumnus of Broadway and Dublin's Abbey Theater, who has directed Bristol's successful offshoot Old Vic since...
...Main offshoot of the unexpectedly large enrollment is a housing shortage which has already sent over 250 students to barracks-type quarters in the gym and forced Housemasters to raise their quotas slightly above the 1947 level...
...coalition of the Estadistas (an offshoot of the continental G.O.P.), the Reformists and the Socialists. They are pledged to work for statehood on a ticket headed by Martin Travieso, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico's Supreme Court...