Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After he plugged through Yale Law and a two year stint in the Army "digging latrines," Mrs. Roosevelt asked Lowenstein to run a national education campaign for the United Nations Association. He campaigned for the UN group for a year and then left to become Senator Hubert Humphrey's foreign policy advisor. He met Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, Humphrey's newly elected junior colleague, during the spring...
Then last year she started recording for soul-oriented Atlantic Records (TIME, July 28) and "everything came together." Not only did her records take off, but she became a top attraction at college concerts, began lining up guest appearances on prime-time television (her stint on last week's Kraft Music Hall was the first), and started getting offers for glossy nightclub bookings. By last week, she had won all but one of the major trade awards open to her-and last week she won that one too: Billboard magazine's citation as the top female singer...
Instruct & Reprimand. Apprised of his tough ways as principal of Roslindale High, six teachers asked out even before he arrived. Since then, the new headmaster has got rid of 23 more. "You instruct, inspect, reprimand and relieve from duty," explains O'Leary, whose World War II stint as an Air Force colonel has given him a fondness for military metaphor. "A good school needs administration, perspicacity and guts...
...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Frank Fontaine returns for a guest stint as Crazy Guggenham. Among Gleason's other guests: Louis Armstrong, Kate Smith, Milton Berle...
...more impressive is that Schuller was a high school dropout, and is a completely self-taught composer ("I learned from the best teachers, the scores themselves"). The son of a New York Philharmonic violinist, he became a professional French horn player at 16, at 19 started a 14-year stint with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. All the while, he composed prolifically. even scribbling notes during rests at performances...