Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such immemorial tradition began the 555th year of Winchester College, one of Britain's oldest public schools and the prototype of such others as Eton and Harrow. Founded in 1394 by William of Wykeham, Lord Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary...
Scholars & Gentlemen. Whatever the answer, English educators expect that more & more boys from the state schools are going to crash the hallowed gates of the public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part of the school as its rich educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change...
...same desire makes it all the harder for ancient public schools like Winchester to change course, even when necessity seems to make changes inevitable...
Teamed with socialite Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force did as much as anyone to pull contemporary U.S. art out of the side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred...
After a headlong start early in the year, infantile paralysis was slowing down. By last week, U.S. Public Health Service chartmakers could point with confidence to the week ended Aug. 20 (in which 3,419 cases were reported) as the year's peak. Since then, the curve has been downward. But 1949 was certain to have a staggering polio toll marked against it: already 29,051 cases had been reported, and by year's end the total would be nearer...