Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gambling houses, 1,800 bookies, 23,000 slot machines and 600 brothels. He waited for seven months before he took steps to remodel the police department, but when he did, he kicked out 23 high-ranking officers. He appointed a college graduate as police chief, and a Rhodes scholar as fire chief...
Smith College's Eleanor Shipley Duckett, 68, crisp, brisk author and scholar of Latin and medieval literature (Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars; Gateway to the Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...
...National Scholarships. These go to 49 men in 21 states. The recipients must be students "of exceptional ability and promise who have distinguished themselves as leaders in extra-curricular as well as in scholastic activities." If the National Scholar maintains honor grades, his grant is renewed for three years...
...small, bald, bespectacled man in the brown suit, who was freed on a technicality in London last week, looked like a Hearst cartoon of a New Deal scholar. He was no such thing: he was Gerhart Eisler...
Died. James Truslow Adams,† 70, Brooklyn-born scholar and historian, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Founding of New England, author of more than 20 volumes on the U.S. (The Epic of America, 1931) and Britain (Building the British Empire, 1938); in Southport, Conn...