Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five other towns, anxious for a new tourist attraction, clamored for Sitting Bull's bones too. Montana's Senator James E. Murray argued that the chief should be reburied at Montana's Custer Battlefield Cemetery, near the remains of General Custer.* And North Dakota, aroused to civic pride after 63 years, suddenly decided it prized Sitting Bull after all. The old chief's granddaughters-Mrs. Nancy Kicking Bear, Mrs. Angelique LaPointe and Mrs. Sarah Little Spotted Horse-had all agreed to Grey Eagle's project, but North Dakota's Governor Norman Brunsdale refused...
...everything here." The troubleshooter: Paul C. (for Clifford) Smith, 44, who, as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, was such an important figure that he was petitioned to run for mayor, was called on to settle labor disputes, and had a big hand in the city's civic affairs. Vice President Smith, who quit his job as editor four months ago, will roam the company troubleshooting wherever Crowell-Collier needs him, at $40,000-plus a year...
...describe her favorite priests as "living saints." But to religion, as to everything else, she brings a measure of humorous detachment: she once dubbed her flossy Beverly Hills parish church "Our Lady of the Cadillacs." She is a tireless do-gooder and works actively for some 30 charitable and civic activities. Usually she volunteers for the least popular job of all-raising money...
...just in case she wants to do a movie for her husband, whose Independent Artists, Inc. produced the recently released Never Wave at a WAC, starring Rosalind Russell. What time she has left over from performing in Wonderful Town, she spends making speeches, shopping and going to parties, attending civic luncheons, visiting hospitals. With a twinkle in her eye, she faces the future with bubbling confidence, boundless energy, and that shrewd sense of what is best for Rosalind Russell...
...Mill Street Athletic Association (Leverett Section) irregularly challenges assorted field hockey teams from women's colleges. Meanwhile, Leverett's Civic improvement Society hastens to perform various necessary odd jobs around the House. Its most recent achievement was to locate the center of the universe outside McKinlock Hall's main entrance...