Word: wunderkind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harris had had four hits on Broadway (Coquette, The Royal Family, The Front Page, Broadway); in New York City. Born Jacob Horowitz in Vienna, Harris dropped out of Yale and toiled briefly as a press agent for the Shubert brothers before emerging as a theatrical Wunderkind by producing Broadway. Though financially crippled by the stock market crash in 1929, he produced or directed some of the more notable Broadway efforts of the 1930s, including Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-prizewinning Our Town, A Doll's House with Ruth Gordon and The Green Bay Tree with Laurence Olivier. Harris...
...outside agitator who introduced the Star to "participatory management," as the arrangement is called, is Stephen D. Isaacs, 41, former Washington Post Wunderkind (metropolitan editor at 26) and most recently director of the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. When Isaacs became the Star's editor a year ago, the paper was, in the words of Publisher Donald R. Dwight, 48, "a warmed-over daily news report that was neither timely nor very interesting." The Star had lost 75,000 subscribers since the 1950s. Last July, for the first time in its 59 years, the paper fell behind...
...outstanding fighter award at the New England AAU championships and a definite Olympic contender, will head the card," Jackson said excitedly, as he peddled tickets in the Lowell dining hall. Hundreds of phone calls and miles of legwork later, George Jackson not only sounds like, but is, the promoting wunderkind of boxing at Harvard. Division Boston New York 106 lb. Joe Roach Louis Hernandez 112 lb. Eddic Reardon George Pimentell 119 lb. Jimmie Lyons Jorge Vasquez 125 lb. Tony Verga Steven Boyd 132 lb. John Curran Mike Dominquez 139 lb. Felix Martinez Bobby Francis 147 lb. Robbie Sims Simon Ramos...
History: European born. After sickly youth in the U.S., traveled to Vienna and returned as Dr. Freud's Wunderkind. Amazing social success for one so young. Strong influence on such older associates as Education, Government, Child Rearing and the Arts, and a few raffish friends like Advertising and Criminology...
...brilliant scholars. "The procedures prescribed by Harvard for making tenure appointments worry me for this reason--they may be somewhat slanted against younger people. In my field of English, the younger a person is, the less likely he is heard of outside the university. There might be the greatest Wunderkind in the world and we might know that but outside people won't Perkins says...