Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Department early this month denied John K. Fairbank '29 professor of History, a military perm to enter Japan, but the decision is nov under review. Fairbank had received a year's leave of absence from the University to teach in a Japanese university...
...world's worst swimmer [but] Tito is expert. When we went bathing together, Tito, my wife and Tiger, the magnificent German police dog that goes everywhere with him, the three of them enjoyed my discomfiture . . . The Marshal promised if I stayed a little longer he would soon teach me to be as good a swimmer as he is himself...
When Maureen was eleven, Folsom knew he had a real find on his hands, persuaded one of his well-heeled patrons to subsidize Maureen's lessons with famed Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, who coached Helen Wills, Bobby Riggs and Alice Marble to glory. Teach, who has tutored Maureen ever since, began developing the dainty little baseliner into a hard-driving attacker...
...Maureen beat all the little girls, became the youngest U.S. girls' champion. Last year she kept her crown-and ranked tenth among the big girls in the women's division. This spring Teach decided that more junior competition would simply dull Maureen's game, coached her to a berth on the Wightman Cup team which beat Britain...
...Perry Jones reckoned three months ago that Maureen was "one or two years" away from taking the U.S. women's title. Then he gave himself a neat out: "Maybe she'll fool some of us experts." Maureen not only fooled Oracle Jones last week; she had Teach near collapse in a marquee...