Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First class of ten boys and twelve girls was chosen for brains and maturity rather than papa's ability to pay (five students have full scholarships). Half are high school seniors, will get full credit for the year. The rest are recent high school graduates, may get college credit. The curriculum: English composition, biology, social science, French, all used as practical tools. The biology course, for example, focuses on the world's food, health, and population problems. "We're not trying to make experts," says Jaeger. "There is nothing so obnoxious as a 17-year-old expert...
...frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Brook Benton. Back into pop records went the sound of shimmering strings, down went the beat. Of the top ten pop hits last week, only three were out-and-out rock 'n' roll. In Manhattan, Sam Goody's famed record shops reported a 40% drop in rock 'n' roll sales compared to a year...
...Sartre piece (seen on Broadway ten years ago as Red Gloves) was the latest Play of the Week, eighth in an admirable series on New Jersey's WNTA-TV. The series presents a different taped play every week (six evenings, plus Sunday afternoons), usually relying on past Broadway productions and topnotch Broadway casts...
...television." That afternoon, the two men met, and in the end both apologized. Mickey was supposed to reappear on Paar's show for the sake of good will, but he changed his mind. Paar gleefully announced his replacement: Moppet Star Evelyn (Eloise) Rudie, nine years old and ten inches shorter than Mickey's 5 ft. 3. Full of good taste. Paar had told his audience earlier that Mickey threatened to sock him on the nose, but Paar took flight because "I don't want to get hit in the knees...
From painstaking ten-minute to half-hour microscopic examinations of each of 19,797 exquisitely thin slivers of tissue from human lungs, medical researchers reported last week that they had found the strongest anatomical evidence that heavy cigarette smoking is a potent cause of lung cancer. At the A.M.A.'s Dallas meeting, Dr. Oscar Auerbach of East Orange, N.J. told how he and a distinguished colleague, Dr. Arthur Purdy Sout (retired professor of pathology at Columbia Uni versity's College of Physicians and Surgeons), had examined the magnified tissue slides, cell by cell. Working with them were...