Word: school
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Silent Night, Lonely Night (by Robert Anderson) tells of two people in a New England inn on Christmas Eve. Strangers in adjacent rooms-Barbara Bel Geddes has a son in a prep-school infirmary near by, Henry Fonda a wife in a mental sanitarium up the hill-they come together out of loneliness, are at first trivially autobiographical, then more and more confidingly so. They have a drink with newlyweds, look back on marriage that has come to grief, resist pity and show twinges of self-pity, talk of love and resist sex. The woman, it turns...
...dungaree-clad London housewife, Frink had her first exhibition while still in art school. Last week her tabletop bronzes were on view at Manhattan's Bertha Schaefer Gallery. At first glance, many looked like mud attempting to fly; they were that energetic and that saggy. The combination said something blue about man's estate, the approved tone of most contemporary sculpture. But Frink's ostensible purpose has nothing to do with moral messages or with ideals of any kind, not even plastic ones. "Somebody makes a metal armature for me," she explains, "and I start covering...
...Middletown, Ohio seemed too good to be true. In high school, he scored 2,460 points in three years to smash Wilt Chamberlain's record by 208 points. By his senior year, some 150 colleges from Princeton to Hawaii were after him ("They woke me up in the morning; they got me out of class"), but he chose Ohio State. Last year, in two scrimmage games against the varsity, the phenomenal freshman unhinged his elders by nicking home 92 points. Giddy with anticipation, Coach Fred Taylor began drilling Ohio State in an offense that could be draped around...
...N.A.M.'s new president was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1897, emigrated to the U.S. in 1910. Completing grammar school in Holyoke, Mass., Bannow went to work as an apprentice patternmaker in 1911 at 6½? an hour ("I was grossly underpaid"). In 1919 he shipped around the world for a year as a coal stoker on a freighter ("I had to get that phase out of my system"). At 30, he bought Bridgeport Pattern and Model Works with "$80 and a $3,000 loan,'1 changed its name to Bridgeport Machines, Inc., and went to work manufacturing...
...Hollanders everywhere, a Philips' incandescent lamp bulb is as much a symbol of their country as a tulip. Founded in 1891 by studious Gerard Philips, 32, a professor at the Delft Polytechnic School, the company started out in an abandoned tannery making 30 light bulbs a day. Though Philips taught himself and then ten ex-farm hands how to make bulbs, he was no good at selling them. In 1895 the company was up for sale when younger brother Anton, 20, quit a promising banking career to take over sales, did so well that by 1897 the company began...