Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...person, no home, no community can be beyond the reach of this call. We are summoned to act in wisdom and in conscience, to work with industry, to teach with persuasion, to preach with conviction, to weigh our every deed with care and with compassion. For this truth must be clear before us: whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. "More than an escape from death, it is a way of life...
...Business. Strictly a playing pro and hating to teach ("I charge $50 an hour, so even my friends will leave me alone"), Mangrum travels 40,000 miles a year by car, another 40,000 by air in pursuit of the tournament dollar. Money-Player Mangrum's biggest kick: the $22,500 he won in two weeks in 1948 at the "world championship" at Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, his home course...
...native singsong style. But when she was six, he decided she should learn to play the piano, bought her a metal-bodied, warp-proof (but tinny-toned) instrument. By the time she was twelve she had learned everything the sisters in a local Roman Catholic missionary school could teach her. After four more years of private lessons, she went to the Paris Conservatory. She soon found that her talents lay in the light-fingered piano music of Mozart, Chopin and Faure, that she would never have the power to pound out a Rachmaninoff concerto. Weighty romantic music never appealed...
When he returns in the next September, he plans to teach American history and complete a trilogy on the history of the post-Civil War South. The first part- "Road to Reunion"-won a Pulitzon Prize in 1938. Shortly thereafter, he began his administrative duties...
Although Williams, contacted in Washington, declined to comment, a reliable source confirmed the report that the new President had offered him the post. Williams stated that he would be in Cambridge to teach his courses in the spring term...