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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howe pointed out that it is nearly impossible to make satisfactory investigations of pre-college finances. This and was echoed by officials in other Ivy League colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howe Says Yale Admission System Caused Ivy Scandal | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

...makes to difference what an applicant's field of concentration is as an undergraduate, Emerson added, provided that he has met the basic pre-med requirements. Thirty percent of the applicants for the Medical School this year were non-science majors in college and their qualifications were "equal in every respect to those who concentrated in the sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School Admission Will Grow Harder, Emerson Says | 2/24/1955 | See Source »

...rate. Critics in such "try-out towns" as Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit, the three cities where Silk Stockings has played to far, habitually write with one eye on Broadway; thus they hesitate to pan any show that seems even remotely capable of becoming a hit. Most of the pre-opening reviews of Silk Stockings, accordingly, have pointed out serious flaws in the production but refrained from condemning it as a whole. The play seems "jaded and faded and old and cold," said Cyras Durgin of the Boston Globe who then concluded, typically; "But it will do business...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Will Silk Stockings Run? | 2/23/1955 | See Source »

After competing in the 600 during the entire season, Dick Wharton switched to the 1000 and he too was never headed, as he easily outran the pre-meet favorite, Princeton's Tempest Lowry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Track Team Edges Crimson; Princeton Last in Triangular Meet | 2/23/1955 | See Source »

...such affairs of state that Pérez Jiménez drew his countrymen's attention. Amid Cabinet meetings and the signing of decrees, they noted, the President worked in an astonishing schedule of extracurricular activities. He went to a garden party, an auto race and a pre-Mardi Gras fiesta, where he awarded the queen's prize. He tried out -a new rowboat and pitched the first ball of the Caribbean baseball tourney. He went to the touring Folies Bergère of Paris, whose nude cuties have been a scandalous success in Caracas. At week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Work & Play | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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