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...despite his influence and renown in the field of history Karpovich presently occupies a chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and he is probably best known at the College as lecturer in Slavic 150, a survey of modern Russian literature. The big change began about six years ago, when he was asked to teach a literature course and obligingly agreed--although his only qualification was that he had "read the books and liked them." Since then he has spent more and more time studying the nineteenth century authors about whom he lectures, but he still considers himself primarily a historian...
...George worked his way through high school (taking a year off to teach grade school), and toyed with the idea of becoming a dentist. But the drill-and-chisel profession lost a recruit when Judge U. V. Whipple, an orator of local renown, failed to show up for a Masonic convention on the Methodist camp grounds in Preston. Someone suggested that 16-year-old Walter George, the best high-school orator in those parts, stand in for the missing speaker. George was willing, spent 30 minutes preparing himself, then delivered a rousing 40-minute oration on the duties...
...Globetrotters that came bursting onto the court to the tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown" were the same red, white and blue uniforms which have gained them world-wide renown, as well as capacity crowds wherever they go, but as far as this crowd was concerned, the Globetrotters could have stayed in New York. Gone from the lineup was the showman Goose Tatum; gone from the floor was the remarkable dribbler Leon Hilliard--in short, the Globetrotters were just a basketball team, and not a show company...
...chores in his own screen biography, ebony Singer Nat "King" Cole, a trifle breathless from crooning a dozen of his hits, e.g., Nature Boy, Too Young, told how he felt as the hero of the vanguard film in Hollywood's projected series of movies about living musicians of renown. Asked if he had been thrown by any of his own lines, Cole shrugged and husked...
...others for racist propaganda. Chiefly because he held the editorship of a German psychoanalytic journal during the Nazi regime (his co-editor at one time was a relative of Hermann Göring), Jung has sometimes been accused of Nazi sympathies. Jung's position: as a foreigner of renown, he merely took the job to safeguard what he could of German psychiatry...