Word: wooley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terribly difficult to combine sex and art without suffering. Ever since Judge Wooley's historic decision on Ulysses, the moneymakers have been trying to imbue pornography with "redeeming social value." Unfortunately, this usually makes for bad pornography...
Long burdened with second-string talent, just getting over two financially disastrous productions (including a $9,000 Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Wooley as guest star), the HDC was hardly in a position to assume dominance over Harvard theatre. Only an uncommonly talented new generation of people enabled the HDC to meet the high standards which had previously characterized its competition. Director Stephen Aaron, actors Colgate Salsbury, Harold Scott and D.J. Sullivan -- all were from the class of '57, and they became the nucleus of a rejuvenated...
Academically, a perfect 4.0 is about as rare in colleges as a .400 batting average is in pro baseball. Nonetheless, Daisy's achievement was matched by other summa cum laudes at major universities in the class of '66. Bruce A. Wooley, a University of California electronics engineering student, racked up three years of 4.0 at Berkeley after an unblemished year at the University of Arizona. Thomas J. Messenger had perfect marks as a physical chemistry major at the University of Michigan. Air Force Veteran George Chartier, a 30-year-old psychology major, completed straight-A work...
...Secrets. How did they do it? "I just do the work until it's done," says Berkeley's Wooley. Daisy Hilse found no short cuts, employed no secrets. She took copious notes in her lectures, concentrated only on "doing well." She studied hard, but never past midnight, because "I get too tired." Her string of A's actually worried her, since "grade-grubbing is not a particularly healthy attitude toward education." She con fesses that she "might have been relieved if I had gotten...
...came in the seventh when a single by catcher Jack Singer, a sacrifice, and an error put men on first and third. Coach Ed Donovan sent up a pinch-hitter, Vic Wooley; Del Rossi struck him out. The next batter was Skey, the pitcher; Del Rossi struck him out, ending the inning with a flourish. Del Rossi's record is now 5-0, his earned run average...