Word: wises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four C.C.A.-endorsed candidates won places on the Cambridge School Committee, final results of last week's election showed. Under the PR system, candidates must reach a quota of votes to be guaranteed a place on the Committee. Mrs. Pearl Wise, a C.C.A. candidate was the first person to make the quota...
Princeton and the Crimson, both with mediocre records, clash at 10:30 in the first Big Three game of the season. The games as a rule go to the host squad, so Bruce Munro's team gets the nod in a game which promises, weather-wise, to be one of the strangest of the Harvard-Princeton series...
...requesting and accepting bribes, Lyons appeared before the old Plan B Council to argue against buying new snow plows of which the city owned not even one. He observed that as "the Almighty sends the snow, . . . He will in time remove it." For in those days it was politically wise to remove snow with the hand-shovel power of unemployed friends. Lyons was later convicted on 42 counts of bribery...
Luckily, the city has a remarkable opportunity to improve the local school situation in the candidacy of eight highly qualified people on the CCA slate. Seven of the eight are new to committee work, the exception being Mrs. Pearl K. Wise who has been on the group for the past four years. But if they are new to the School Committee as such they are not new to education. Among the seven are Judson T. Shaplin, director of Freshmen Scholarships here and former Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education and George I. Rohrbough, also a professional educator...
...better than a year ago, and its radio business 15% up over 1952. "Star power" did the trick, Kintner says. Early in its new life, the network decided to brighten up its TV by going out for big entertainers. Vice President Robert M. Weitman, a Broadway-wise showman who turned Manhattan's Paramount Theater into a mint by combining its first-run movies with name bands and singers, was called in as chief talent scout. Showman Weitman brought home a choice selection of what he calls "flesh": Dancer Ray Bolger, Professional Toastmaster George Jessel, Hoofer Paul Hartman, Nightclub Comedian...