Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after losing all his money in the Depression. Frances felt that her mother, a beauty of German Jewish origin with a keen sense of high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that her manic-depressive episodes, which she now controls with lithium, could have a genetic component, she began a search...
...guess I should have figured it out during the ice cream bash freshperson week, when I began to notice that all in the room were the editor-in-chief of their high school's newspaper, the principal managing editor of the yearbook, the president of their class, the first counsel to their Model U.N., and the chief executive officer of their Stock Market Club...
STUDENTS from other universities of no small renown can simply volunteer to write for the paper, to take pictures for the yearbook, to give tours of the campus. But here, everything is a comp. What does "comp" mean, one may quite reasonably ask. "Competition?" No, heaven forbid, not "competition," the comp directors at The Crimson assured us. Not competition but merely "competence." You have to demonstrate that you're friendly enough to give a tour, for instance, or persistent enough to be a journalist...
...yearbook, with photos and scraps...
Born in Brooklyn to Russian immigrants, Geffen showed no taste for academics. At New Utrecht High School, where his senior yearbook predicted he would be a dentist, Geffen finished in the bottom tenth of his class. But he was inspired by business, an interest nurtured partly by his mother's proprietorship of a bra-and-corset shop. After dropping out of two colleges, he padded his resume with a fake degree from UCLA and landed a job as a mail- room clerk at the William Morris talent agency. (He still faults the company for requiring that credential...