Word: civic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scorpions Too Small. Hollywood's Righter probably owes his vocation to a Philadelphia physician who in 1937 told him he had six months to live (Righter now says he had a "back ailment"). Then a pressagent for the Philadelphia Civic Opera, he moved to Hollywood. Reading about the zodiac, he soon saw that although Broadway plays were being scheduled by astrological advice, and Wall Street might be half paralyzed without readings from the stars, Hollywood could be El Dorado as a place to cast horoscopes...
...York City's most eminent senior citizens, Vienna-born Violinist Fritz Kreisler, proudly made his way to city hall, where on his 85th birthday he got a civic scroll for "distinguished and exceptional service" from Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Aside from composing such popular tunes as Romance and Caprice Viennois, Virtuoso Kreisler also "ghostwrote" a series of compositions that he ascribed to 17th and 18th century masters; years later he confessed that he had done so because "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs." During the city hall ceremony Kreisler, who played...
Funny, Aren't They? At a civic luncheon, he sought to discourage the nationalist's desire to secede from the federation, while assuring all concerned that he had deep sympathy for their "aspirations for self-government." As loudspeakers carried his words outside, 2,000 Africans bearing antifederation placards began to grow restless. Finally, a black policeman snatched one of the placards, and the trouble began. It quickly became a scene out of Evelyn Waugh: below, the blacks screamed and police flailed; on the hotel veranda above, Europeans calmly went on sipping their gins and whiskies...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 announced standing committee assignments for 1960-61 yesterday, and in doing so insured that the Cambridge Civic Association is well-represented in the chairmanships...
Crane got the necessary five votes by holding his own and three other Cambridge Civic Association choices, plus Vellucci's vote. On the six previous ballots, Vellucci had voted for himself, and had been an avowed candidate for the post...