Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy. Morning found Burke still in his office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider and A4D Skyhawk bombers, plus F8U Crusader interceptors, were heading out over Lebanon and Jordan. Burke's follow-through: in Lebanon a second Marine battalion landed, then a third. Back across the Atlantic the carrier Antietam loaded...
Washington's Evening Star reported one day last week that Boston Big Shot Bernard Goldfine paid posh Burning Tree Club, where White House staffers golf, for the expensive set of Spalding clubs used by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty efficiently checked with Boss Adams, quickly assured reporters that the whole thing was a false alarm. Sure, Adams got the clubs for nothing, but not from his "old and dear friend" Goldfine, donor of the vicuña coat and the $2,400 Oriental rug. The club-giver turned out to be a Massachusetts theater...
Stephen Marshall Cohen, this year's Lowell Lecturer in Boston, was appointed to an assistant professorship in Philosophy, and John Charles Nelson, an instructor in Italian here since 1957, has been made an assistant professor...
Basil Rathbone is an old pro; Geraldine Page is a young pro. These two stars, collaborating in Terence Rattigan's masterfully written Separate Tables, are providing the Boston Summer Theatre with its best show of the season...
Members of the tour will attend the three main concerts this weekend. On Friday evening, Pierre Monteux will conduct the Boston Symphony in a program composed of selections from Glinka's "Russlan and Ludmilla;" Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony; the Overture to Milhaud's "Les Eumenides," Debussy's "Three Nocturnes," and Ravel's "La Valse...