Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gardner, 26-year-old ex-student of stenography who married & divorced Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw on the way up, has a B-and-B quality that makes M-G-M hope she will become a screaming siren by the time Lana Turner begins to run down...
Gara scolded the police for arresting the student, wrote a letter of protest to the district attorney, presently found himself on trial for having "counseled, aided and abetted" another person in evading draft regulations. Though Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register...
Sometimes in the course of a lecture, Conant grows excited about a point, paces about his platform restlessly. But he will stop for any hand that is raised, answer any question. After class he never rushes away, but chats or answers questions for as long as his students wish. "When he says 'Come around and see me,' " said one student, "he really means it- though I imagine he has plenty of other things to do." For Conant himself, such professorial demands are a pleasure. "Anybody who enjoys teaching," he says, "enjoys returning to teaching...
Sleeping Couple. Last week, as the government's Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes (which owns the convent) was investigating Siqueiros' charges, new and more serious trouble struck San Miguel. In the course of a drunken party, Mrs. Joan McHugh, a 23-year old student from Pittsburgh, accused Leonard Zurnis, a Brooklyn ex-G.L, of trying to seduce her. Later in the evening Mrs. McHugh passed out. When her husband Daniel entered the room a few minutes later, he found Zurnis asleep beside her. A brawl began; Zurnis ended up with a broken nose and fractured skull, died...
...Some 200 students and teachers have been hard at work all month. The students, who come from 20 states, had paid about $250 tuition apiece for the six-week summer session; the teachers, many of whom play for northern symphony orchestras, got their expenses only. At week's end, the hard work paid off in a lively concert by the yo-piece student-teacher band before a crowd of 1,200. Main event of the evening: Grieg's Concerto in A Minor, with Guest Pianist Eugene List, the ex-G.I. who played for Truman and Stalin...