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Built-in Engine. One night a week Wouk gives a course in advanced rhetoric at New York's Yeshiva University to a class of rabbinical students. He owns no car and no boat ("Possessions are disastrous"), but he does own two homes. In addition to the Fire Island summer place, he has a fashionable cooperative apartment in Manhattan's East 60s. He and his wife are homebodies; they love to read and listen to records...
...wore on, quietus got an "o," badinage became batonage, and a youngster blurted g-y-r-o-c . . . for gyroscopic and with a despairing cry ("I missed it!") sat down. By 5 p.m. only three contestants were left. Quincunx,'' shot the pronouncer at Naomi Klein of the Yeshiva of Flatbush school (Brooklyn, N.Y.)-and then there were only...
...president of the city council, president of the borough of Manhattan, and lieutenant governor; he has served as president, vice president, overseer, trustee, director, or board member of everything from the Urban League and the Jewish Theological Seminary to Beth Israel Hospital, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, and Yeshiva University. Now, though he never went to college, Charles Silver will be senior trustee to the largest (900,000 pupiisj school system in the world...
...Manhattan, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey proudly announced a $450,000 gift spread among 138 privately supported colleges and universities (e.g., Duke, Smith, Yale, Yeshiva). Only restriction on the awards (biggest $5,000): they must be used solely to finance undergraduate study...
...fellow from Yale who was Varsity tennis and Bones was worried because they had asked him why he had dropped out of the ROTC. He was talking to the one from Yeshiva who seemed more worried about missing his fencing meet that night. The Cornell people had cancelled their plane reservations three times already and everyone was complaining that this thing was really dragging out. But no one left...