Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Girls enjoy one deeply-rooted psychological advantage on examinations. Graders unconsciously tend to give higher marks to blue-books inscribe in the true Palmer method. Girls' cursive skills-a neat flowing style of writing rather than a hasty blot of cramped scribbling-provide a margin that cannot be overlooked. "It's true that it's easier to read exams written by girls," on grader notes, "just because their handwriting is far better than boys.' I suppose they might gain half a grade of more by this method...
Cary Middlecoff finished second with a final round of 72 for a total of 285. Defending champion Arnold Palmer salvaged third place...
Belafonte was the first Negro to perform in such plush nightspots as the Eden Roc in Miami and the Palmer House in Chicago. He is the only American Negro to be cast in a romantic movie role opposite a white actress (Joan Fontaine in Island in the Sun). He has not only crossed some color lines, but a great many other lines as well. His appeal is remarkably independent of age or sex. In a recent concert in Pittsburgh, he packed the hall with steelworkers. symphony patrons, bobby-soxers and schoolchildren. When he toured Europe last summer for the first...
...Palmer Dixon '25, long one of the foremost supporters of squash and tennis at Harvard, has given $140,000 to the Program for Harvard College to be used mainly to renovate the University Squash Courts on Linden Street. When the renovating process is completed, the varsity squash team will use these courts as its home base during the season...
Chase is a partner in the Boston law firm of Palmer, Dodge, Gardner, and Bradford. A resident of Dover, Mass., he has been a chairman of the Board of Selectmen in that town, and has been active in a number of charity enterprises...