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...days when Harvard faculty members were asked to repeat their courses for studious young ladies across the Common, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland refused to lecture to Radcliffe classes. "We can't obliterate a natural tendency," he growled, "but why cultivate...
...York's Aqueduct Race Track, gentlemanly Jockey Ted Atkinson, 38, a studious and mild-mannered master of the art of booting home winners, won his 3,000th horse race and became the fourth jockey in history to achieve that record (others: Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards...
Died. Lloyd Morris, 60, author, critic, social historian; of cancer; in Manhattan. In the '20s, studious ("Reading is my major vice"), Manhattan-born Morris was a notable Paris expatriate, at one time or another wrote in nearly every prose form, but achieved his real success in the late '40s as a nostalgic recorder of 20th century America ("the most exciting place in the world") in Postscript to Yesterday and Not So Long...
...year experience at Fisk has given studious Mary Howard a sociologist's dispassionate outlook: "I was experiencing 'reverse integration,' how discrimination feels on the other side of the color line." Hoping for a job with an interracial welfare agency in the North or Midwest, she feels that, despite occasional difficulties, her education was a success: "If I had it to do over again, I would still choose Fisk...
Closing the Gap. In the TV show, Jarrin' Jack can never quite reconcile himself to the fact that Junior is not a muscular fresh-air fiend like himself, but a studious type who collects tropical fish. Junior is convincingly played by Gil Stratton Jr., burr head, droop jaw, horn rims and all. What particularly jars Jack is the knowledge that the son of his meek, pint-sized office bookkeeper is a strapping answer to a football coach's prayer. Yet in program four, after Pop has the bookkeeper's boy underfoot for a weekend, he finds that...