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...bill, the Tribune unearthed fresh evidence. In July 1912 the Senate voted to unseat Boss Lorimer. Complete collapse of the Lorimer prestige came in 1914 when he was tried on mismanagement charges growing out of a bank chain he had formed after leaving Washington. Having watched his most famed pupil, William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, climb to power and fall with Tribune help, he retired into the lumber business...
Prize performer at the Stadium was a onetime Fokine pupil named Albertina Vitak. She danced "Zobeide," the part in Scheherazade originally written for Ida Rubinstein. Rubinstein, never a great dancer, was never able to dance the whole ballet. Olive-skinned Albertina Vitak with smooth ease cringed, skipped, loved, pleaded from the first to the final...
John Hunter (1728-93), great English surgeon, once sat a skeleton beside his sole pupil at a lecture so that "when I address you as gentlemen...
...outstanding feature of the whole episode is the role played by the students. Three of the defendants are Harvard students, three are enrolled at M. I. T., and one is a high school pupil. Despite the support given the arrested anti-Nazis by the faculty and students of Harvard, and by various organizations, especially the International Labor Defense, the defense is badly in need of funds. The sentences have been appealed, and a new drive for funds is necessary. Contributions will be gratefully received, and may be addressed to the undersigned. Every dollar sent us will not only help prevent...
...TIME, Dec. 25). No foreign correspondents were within 100 miles of Strongest but from official dispatches it seemed that the German pupil...