Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington this week invited there by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has dates to confer with Vice President Nixon and to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, will go on to see the press in New York and make a speech before the Harvard Law School Forum. A compulsive explainer. Castro apparently expects to win U.S. sympathy by candor and eloquence-despite his growing record of blaming Cuba's troubles on that "bad neighbor,'' the U.S., and of choosing neutralism as Cuba's cold-war course...
...confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat at. But you're as safe as if you were covering a Sunday-school picnic...
...onetime Berlin lawyer who now teaches piano, Previn arrived in the U.S. when he was nine, studied piano in high school, was hired, even before he graduated, by M-G-M to arrange the boogie-woogie pieces for Jose Iturbi's Holiday in Mexico. Lately, Previn has been feeling the burdens of age, sharpened by a desire to compose more serious music: "You can't write it in Hollywood. I've had ten years there, and I don't want to look back at myself on my 50th birthday and know I haven't tried...
...wanted fame," Wright confessed in later years. "Instead, I became notorious." As the Depression of the '30s closed in, Wright went bankrupt, finally incorporated himself and turned the rebuilt Taliesin into an apprentice school for architects. When the Museum of Modern Art staged its historic 1932 show of International Style architecture, Wright was represented, but in effect considered already dead and buried...
...church notice boards are quietly ablaze with initial letters of decorations awarded new curates and vicars in their old careers. At last month's meeting of the Anglican selection board for ministerial training, the only two candidates over 40 were army majors; at the R.A.F. Chaplain's School, a quarter of the 125 candidates for ordination are senior officers...