Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children...
Despite the danger involved in answering more than one thousand alarms a year, the Cambridge firemen live a worthwhile, somewhat leisurely, self-satisfied life, a happy contrast to their neighbors living across Broadway...
...first, entitled "Dedication," is a chorale; the other, "Lonely Men of Harvard," is termed by its authors a "lament-march." G. Wright Briggs Jr. '31, director of the Harvard Band, said that "Dedication" represented Bernstein in a musically elevated mood, whereas the other piece was "typically Broadway...
Divorced. Judy Holliday (real name: Judith Tuvim), 37, bouncy blonde Oscar-winning cinemactress (Born Yesterday), currently wowing Broadway in the musi-comedy Bells Are Ringing; from Clarinetist David Oppenheim, 35; after nine years of marriage, 2½ of separation, one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...burly Californian who is not only a Man of Distinction (1947) for Calvert whisky but for Ethel Merman, his musicomedienne (Happy Hunting) wife. With a Westerner's derring-do, Six has dabbled in oil wells, uranium and chemicals, hunts elk in Colorado, backs shows on Broadway (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...