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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most gifted female athlete in the history of Pennsylvania's Radnor High School was a tall (5 ft. 7½ in.) brunette with a booming tennis serve and a fine basketball hook shot. After she left Radnor, the brunette became one of the best lyric-coloratura sopranos in the world. Last week a busload of teachers journeyed to Manhattan to cheer the school's most famous alumna in a new kind of starring role. Young (24), shapely (36-24-36) Soprano Anna Moffo was making her debut at the Met in Verdi's La Traviata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Radnor High | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...eight: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass.; Taunton (Mass.) High School; Bronx High School of Science, New York City; The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; The George School, Bucks County, Pa.; Radnor High School, Wayne, Pa.; University High School, Urbana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New Physics Class | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Listed by police respectively in Radnor, Pennsylvania and Los Alamos, New Mexico as suicides were...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Seven Undergraduates Die Over Christmas Holidays | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

Both apparent suicides died by carbon monoxide poisoning. Smith was visiting relatives at Radnor when he was found in a garage on Christmas Eve, dead from the fumes of the family's automobile. Radnor Police Surgeon Dr. A. J. Pitone gave a verdict of suicide and burial was on Dec. 28, in Whitemarsh, Pa. Smith lived near Amherst, Mass., with his father, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts. He was an editor of the CRIMSON...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Seven Undergraduates Die Over Christmas Holidays | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

Forestry Commissioner Lord Radnor. It still distributes prizes, still holds public lectures and exhibitions, but one of its chief functions is to give examinations in commercial subjects to some 140,000 unschooled men and women each year who want the society's prized certificate of proficiency. After two centuries of activity, the R.S.A. remains what it has always been-Britain's great godmother perpetually on the lookout for any "design for the publick Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Godmother | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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