Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slavic Languages...
Renate Poggioli, associate professor in Slavic and Comparative Literature, has been appointed full professor effective July 1, 1950, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...Slavic and German communities along the U.S. "polka circuit," nobody has to be told about Frankie Yankovic and his five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size...
...acting as the final judge of what research is to be undertaken. Talcott parsons, professor of Sociology, Edward S. Mason, dean of the School of Public Administration, Donald C. McKay, chairman of the Committee on International and Regional Studies, Fainsod, Gerschenkron, Michael Karpovich, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages, and Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, sit with Kluckhohn on this group...
...Greenough's first husband, Huge Reisinger, bequeathed funds to both the Germanic Museum and the College Library. Their son, Curt H. Reisinger 12, recently gave $300,000 to the University for the establishment of the Samuel Hazard Professorship of Slavic languages and Literatures...