Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stealing 104 bases in the course of a season is certainly an achievement, but is it a religious, charitable, scientific, educational, artistic, literary or civic achievement? None of these, decided the U.S. Tax Court, ruling that cunning Pittsburgh Pirate Infielder Maury Wills cannot claim the federal tax exemption for meritorious prizes on the jeweled, $6,000 S. Rae Hickok belt that he won as Professional Athlete of the Year...
...number of recordings of Mahler works has leaped from ten in 1952 to 81 this year-three of which are currently among the 40 best-selling classical LPs. At least four record companies are issuing complete sets of the symphonies under a single conductor. The Pittsburgh Symphony's William Steinberg is planning an unprecedented series of seven Mahler concerts for the orchestra next season, three of them in New York. In Paris, no fewer than ten concerts since January have featured Mahler compositions. And in Austria last week, the Vienna Festival wound up a monthlong, twelve-concert survey...
...wall as it tries to be competitive in faculty, facilities and programs." Occidental President Richard C. Gilman, while confident that his own school will survive, predicts that 250 private colleges will either merge with other institutions or collapse within the next five years. Already Temple and the Universities of Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Kansas City, and Houston have quietly surrendered their status as entirely independent private schools, have become affiliated with state systems...
MARILYN PFOHL DONNELLY Pittsburgh...
Janis Richter Krohn of Huntington Valley, Pa. (Social Studies); Beth Edelman Luey of Pittsburgh, Pa. (History and Literature); Jania Mukerji of Tuckahoe, N.Y. (English); Ruth Bliss Phillips of Newton Highlands (History and Literature) and Esther R. Purpel of Cambridge (English...