Word: protegees
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Died. Claude McKay, 58, onetime Pullman porter and first Negro to write a bestseller (Home to Harlem, 1928); after long illness; in Chicago. A protege of Max Eastman, Poet-Author McKay drifted leftward through Communism to disillusionment, then swung to Catholicism, lost his high literary promise on the way.
In 1862 Benito Juárez was president, and Mexico had just emerged from years of exhausting civil war. But there were die-hards among the defeated, and these had persuaded the ambitious emperor of the French that there was glory to be got in Mexico. There was also a...
One of the most active members in the Club's history was Leonard Bernstein '39, protege of Serge Koussevitzky and well-known conductor and composer, who headed the program committee and managed to perform at all but one of the regular meetings of the Club in the year 1936-37...
Senator McGrath is the political protege and law partner of Rhode Island's other U.S. Senator: 80-year-old Theodore Francis Green. In Providence, McGrath has banking, insurance and other interests, including part-ownership in Rhode Island's Lincoln Downs race track (McGrath reputedly has about $8 million...
Last spring, right after the winter's competition had ended, Ulen took Norris aside--in the much the same way he had taken Franny Powers aside in 1941 just before Powers went on to win the national intercollegiate 220 title. Ulen worked on Norris until the term ended and then...