Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to the University as an undergraduate in 1933 and, with a few breaks, has been here since. In 1938 he studied in New York with Nadia Boulanger, the famous French teacher, and followed her back to Paris for the summer of '39. With the out-break of the war, he returned to Harvard to become a teaching fellow in the Music Department...
...Folger's theatrical debut offered a pointed aside on the National Theater's decision last summer to abandon plays and show movies, rather than accept Actors' Equity's ruling that Negroes must not be barred from the audience. Julius Caesar sold tickets to all applicants, had a sprinkling of Negro customers-and not a hint of a fuss...
...America; some will rough it in the "dormitory ships," which carry student tours for as little as $280 round trip. Nearly all the 31 passenger ships (seven more than last year) plying the ocean lanes from the U.S. to Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France, absent from the Atlantic run for eight years, will not make its first trip for three months, it is already sold out until October. The airlines, reinforced with new equipment, are booked solid too; they expect to fly 150,000 tourists abroad at $630 (to London...
Graduate students Herbert Dick, of Albuquerque, and C. Earle Smith, of St. Petersburg, Florida, went to New Mexico last summer with the Peabody Museum expedition to locate traces of early American man in the Upper Gila River area. They didn't find what they were looking for. But the two University scientists did stumble across something which has puzzled botanists for four centuries. They discovered the missing link in the corn kingdom-cobs and pieces of corn that are both the oldest and most primitive known to modern...
...Last summer's discovery doesn't clear up the 4,000-year old puzzle, but it has been hailed by one of the country's top corn men as an important step toward its solution...