Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COMMENCEMENTS were busting out all over last week, and many a famous man and woman donned cap and gown for the annual distribution of honorary degrees. Whether actress or general, scholar or former infielder, each heard his praises sung in the rolling rhetoric of the citations accompanying their degrees. For a sampling of this year's academic honors list, see EDUCATION, Kudos...
Most evenings Tenor Herb Surface turns up at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater at 8, slips into baggy trousers, tweed jacket and cap, and steps onto the stage as a member of the Cockney quartet which helps ring down the curtain on My Fair Lady's first act: "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air . . ." But one day last week, as he has for many weeks, Tenor Surface got to Times Square early. At 5:30 he joined other members of the My Fair Lady chorus in a studio above Lindy...
Continentalism is as hard to study as it is easy to incur. Its relatively new thread is often hard to single out from the longer-established strands of traditional New England Anglophilism, or impotent Cambridge bohemianism, or merely the shabby genteel. Are that tweed cap and turtleneck sweater and that pair of Colin Wilson glasses long standing affectations, with family sanction, or have they been induced by a fortnight in London? Does that hawk-shouldered young lady with the unattached hair and dangling earrings long to be at Mary Vorse's place instead of the Mandrake? Or is she dressing...
...very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story of this revolutionary progress, TIME Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant spent two weeks visiting 13 major heart-surgery centers, donned scrub suit, cap and mask to watch half a dozen operations from the edge of the operating table, saw hearts stopped, cut and patched according to the latest, most daring techniques. See MEDICINE, Surgery's New Frontier...
...1950s, however, his chest adorned with France's own Legion of Honor for other services rendered, General Le Van Vien was a respectable servant of empire with a household of wives and concubines and a zoo full of wild beasts on a spacious estate overlooking the sea at Cap Saint-Jacques...