Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandstand of the heavily upholstered Café Rouge in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, he beamed handsomely at the biggest crowds the nitery had ever seen, contentedly mooed the season's ballads in a domesticated baritone. Behind him were 23 dapper and earnest young men, a quintet of well-groomed young women carefully schooled to furnish a plush vocal cushion for what has been called everything from "The Voice with Hair on its Chest" to the "Million-Dollar Monotone." The Jeanette (Pa.) High School boy-most-likely-to-succeed (Class of '29) was definitely a success...
Actually the turnout was a compliment not only to Poets Cummings and Auden, but to year-old Brandeis (named for the late great Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis) as well. Each week, people had been coming from Harvard and Wellesley, from Boston and other nearby towns, to attend Brandeis' new Institute of Adult Education. For so new a university, ambitious little Brandeis was attracting more than its share of attention...
...Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach his courses, President Sachar has assembled a faculty of 30 this year (up from 14 in 1948), including such lights as Novelist-Critic Ludwig Lewisohn and column-writing Political Scientist Max Lerner. Says Sachar: "We want to make certain of having some star in each area. I tell students...
...believe that the whole task of the Church in America is one which must be performed by churches working in unity. Otherwise it will not be done at all . . . The slogan . . . may well be: 'Let those who can, unite...
Bishop Manning also had his monument : upper Manhattan's soaring, French-Gothic Cathedral of St. John the Divine-second largest church in the world (the largest: Rome's St. Peter's). By indefatigably begging funds from Protestants of all denominations, as well as from Catholics and Jews, he managed to raise some $15 million for the ninth-of-a-mile-long cathedral, now nearly completed...