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...activities range from directing advanced work in labs to accumulating and arranging outside reading for a history class. Later, the course may include anything an undergraduate knows about that will fit into the pupil's curriculum--as long as the scheduling is less than ten hours a week, the maximum time an HUT agrees to give the program...
...Christmas visit to her aunt in Pesaro, she got her big break: an audition with famed Soprano Carmen Melis, venerated in Italy as one of the great Puccini singers of all time, and then a teacher at the Rossini Conservatory. Melis took on Tebaldi as a fulltime pupil, made her into the kind of singer she is today. Melis worked on voice placement, taught Tebaldi the piano singing to which her voice is naturally adapted. As models, Melis pointed to the sweetness and purity of Muzio, the powerful middle register of Maria Caniglia...
...application form for membership in the International Arthur Murray Lifetime Club. Keyed to worldwide expansion of studios, the application is designed to reduce the risk of suits. It asks students if they "enjoy exchange lessons," i.e., dancing with other than their regular instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without going to court: one involved a wealthy West Coast widow, a triple lifetimer, who tried to date...
...District school boards must refer all Negro applications for white schools to a three-man state pupil-placement board, which can reject them on any basis except color. ("We had to figure out a defense that was based on anything but race," Lindsay Almond once explained. "You see, that would be going against the Supreme Court decision.") The pupil-placement law has already been swept aside in some federal court districts...
...sense, he has a running start on Eisenhower as far as the 1958 congressional campaign is concerned: the principal point of his Politics, Presidents and Coattails, published in 1952, was that a President cannot easily transfer his popularity to congressional candidates. Proved by sad experience, it is Pupil Eisenhower's campaign problem...