Word: sarasota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amateur artist, Marge began painting Carl's portrait. Neighbors began joking about "Dr. Strangelove" and friend, but the widow assured a neighbor that she thought of Carl "like my son." Early last year Marge decided to move to Florida, bought land adjacent to the Gulf Coast resort of Sarasota-and told acquaintances that she had induced her friends to head South with her. In April 1965, the Coppolinos settled in a white stucco home on fashion able Longboat Key off Sarasota. Marge later moved into a house next door...
Surprise Bride. On Aug. 28, Carmela Coppolino died. Again the cause was listed as a heart attack. The death certificate was signed by Juliette Karow, a Sarasota physician, who said that Carl told her when she arrived that Carm had suffered chest pains the previous day. The listed beneficiary of $65,000 worth of insurance on his wife, Carl, 30 days after her death, applied for a license to marry-but not, as it turned out, Good Neighbor Marge. On Oct. 7 Coppolino wed handsome Mary Gibson, 38, whom he had met at his bridge lessons, and who was rumored...
Several innovation-minded new campuses have dropped grades entirely. Sarasota's New College requires only that its students pass comprehensive final examinations each year. Maine's Nasson College is developing a new division with the help of nine other colleges (including Antioch, Bard, Sarah Lawrence and Stephens), which will have no traditional courses and no grades, will center on seven broad "provinces" of learning, such as "mind and spirit" and "mathematics and logic...
...lefthander who went for singles, not homers, and in 20 years in the majors, 15 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, sprayed out 3,152 hits for a .333 average, before retiring in 1945 to occasional coaching jobs-and a niche in the Hall of Fame; of pulmonary emphysema; in Sarasota, Fla. The Big Poison nickname was to distinguish him from his brother and fellow Pirate Lloyd ("Little Poison"), whom he outweighed...
Until January the students will be housed at Landmark, a luxurious Sarasota resort hotel, with a private balcony overlooking the water for every student. When Architect I. M. Pei completes the first phase of a $15 million building program, students will transfer to dorms that are equally inviting. Designed to complement the main building, which is the mansion that once belonged to Circusman Charles Ringling, the low-lying residences are grouped around a central plaza and interior courts. Pairs of students will share carpeted study-bedrooms (with bath) opening onto secluded patios...