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...home), he appeared as a bit actor in several Jackie Cooper films, attended a professional school "for spoiled movie brats." At 20, with prize money he won in piano competitions, he went to Manhattan to study with Olga Samaroff Stokowski, Leopold's first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1946, Lewenthal toured the U.S. for three years. While he was walking through Central Park one summer evening in 1953, a gang of thugs attacked him with clubs and fractured seven...
...Swiss impressionist painter, Giacometti went to Paris in 1922 to study with Rodin's pupil Bourdelle, and settled in the tiny Montparnasse studio where he worked the rest of his life...
...bill, Pettigrew said, would remove one of the biggest stumbling blocks to busing students out of large cities--the amount of money a city would remove by busing them. Most state aid to city school systems takes the form of a pupil attendance grant, which would be produced if the city sent students to the suburbs...
Under Curtin's proposal, it would become part of a 1000-pupil regional school, possibly located in Roxbury. Some 400 students from Roxbury would attend it together with 600 students bussed in from the suburbs. In exchange, 600 Roxbury students would be bussed to suburban schools...
...Shuttlesworth lost a challenge to Alabama's pupil-placement law when the Supreme Court declared the law constitutional, even though it seemed designed to perpetuate segregation...