Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although 67 white children in the Orchard Villa district had been transferred to segregated schools elsewhere, parents of the remaining 14 were generally satisfied with the integrated setup; indeed, with so few pupils, their children were getting far more attention than those in other schools. But that, said the school board, was too costly, and so it voted to relieve overcrowding at nearby, all-Negro Holmes School by assigning more than 100 Negro children to Orchard Villa, along with Negro teachers to replace the white staff. Seven white children were withdrawn from the school, and the others seemed likely...
...psychological quarry was the split personality, his technical gimmick the use of masks. Turning a masked face to the world, Dion Anthony (Fritz Weaver) seems Panlike, violent, blasphemous, sexually magnetic. Without his mask, Anthony quivers and quakes, is reverent toward God and repellent to women. Dion's school friend Billy Brown (Robert Lansing) grows up decent and successful but frustrated. He envies Dion's personality, craves Dion's wife, and, at Dion's death, snatches the mask that made Dion unstable and violent...
...special papal legate. Undeterred by an assassination plot hatched by anti-Catholic fanatics during his U.S. tour, Bedini asked the Holy See to furnish land and buildings, U.S. bishops to provide funds. Quartered in a converted convent on Via dell'Umilta (Humility Street), the school opened hopefully in 1859 with twelve students from seven states (three of the twelve later became archbishops). Pope Pius IX came himself for Mass, Communion and breakfast (including ice cream and punch); delighted students gave three rousing cheers for George Washington and three more for the Pope...
...plus-work" Antioch College (enrollment: 1,300) in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Physician Dixon succeeds Samuel B. Gould, who became the first chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara. A genial, rugged down-Easter, raised on a Maine farm, Dixon is an Antioch graduate (1939). He did the school's part-time circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia's commissioner of public health, became known as an able...
...Edgar Finley Shannon Jr., 41, as fourth* president of the 140-year-old University of Virginia (enrollment: 4,468). He succeeds retiring Colgate W. Darden Jr., who nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half-miler at Washington and Lee (1949). A Navy gunnery officer in World War II, he survived the sinking of the cruiser Quincy, won eleven Pacific Theater battle stars and the Bronze Star. He specialized in Tennyson at Harvard, earned his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Merton College...