Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer about 400 students have held vacation positions, many of them as tutor-companions or camp councillors, or in hotel work...
Under the competent guidance of Mrs. Edna Skelton the comic began to amount to something. She wrote routines, made him study with a tutor until he got a high-school diploma, worked his salary up to $300 a week. Daughter of an undertaker she had just completed a course in embalming prior to her marriage. Skelton has never forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have...
...mighty right, he can sock a ball nearly 300 yards. "But," he moans, "I have trouble with my left hook and just ain't got that delicate touch around the greens." Still, under the private instruction of Bermudian Pro Louis Corbin and Washingtonian Clyde Martin, his present tutor, Louis has become a better than average golfer, has often chalked up scores in the middle 70s. Last fortnight, in the National Negro Amateur, he shot 79 in the opening round...
...before a gallery of 1,000 or more (25% white), the Champion got the heebie-jeebies, posted 88 in the first round, 81 in the second, quit after nine holes of the third. On the other side of the ropes, he won some consolation (and a $200 bet) when Tutor Martin shot 146 (72-74) in the 36-hole final. Martin's 72-hole total of 292, two strokes better than that of Atlantans Calvin Searles and Zeke Hartsfield, won the tournament and the $500 first prize. Lowest amateur score was 300, turned in by a 19-year...
...Manhattan, Morris U. Schappes, City College tutor, ex-Communist and a leader of the College Teachers' Union, Local 537, was convicted of perjury...