Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, a surprising number of candidates running as independents managed without any machine support to get elected. They won 23% of the 11,768 town-and city-council seats at stake. After the election, one Democratic Deputy in the national Parliament quit the party, protesting that it "no longer has any concept of freedom and democracy." He teamed up with 19 other former Democratic Party M.P.s who last month rebelled against the leadership and quit the party. The rebels met in Ankara and formed a new party, the Freedom Party. Their platform: the 1950 Democratic program which the Democrats have...
Socialist club, quit the campus entirely when four professors were fired for airing unorthodox views. He was later "semieducated" at Harvard, served as a smallarms instructor during World War I, taught for a while at Northwestern for $1,700 a year. Once again he quit, this time because "they were changing over from a good, small school into a metropolitan university, and standards were falling, well, wherever they happened to fall." By the time he returned to Harvard as an instructor and settled down in Cambridge, Mass., his writings were already beginning to sell...
...send her to Miss Hewitt's Classes in Manhattan, where she took Broadway for her major subject. For the drama class she played Shaw's Saint Joan, and was offered a Broadway job as an understudy, but her parents said she was too young (18) to quit school...
Heading the senatorial list with 2,500,000 votes, more than ever polled before by a senatorial candidate, was a comely, 38-year-old widow named Pacita Madrigal Warns, who quit her ballet school to head the Women for Magsaysay Movement two years ago. When Magsaysay appointed her to his Cabinet as Commissioner of Social Welfare, she converted her election workers into a volunteer social-workers corps. The daughter of Multimillionaire Vicente Madrigal, onetime Liberal Senator, she campaigned widely with the slogan "For the poor, vote Pacita for Senator...
Four years later, Joan Dunn quit teaching forever. Last week she told why, in a new book called Retreat from Learning (McKay; $3)-a disturbing glimpse of big-city high-school life at its worst, and an outraged indictment of modern educational theories from one who has seen them in action...