Word: civically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidentally enough, by Mr. John Briston Sullivan. J.B. Sullivan has purchased this option on the land, and would undoubtedly exercise it if the plan materialized, forcing the MDC to purchase the area from him if the industrialization project were approved. It is an open question whether Mr. Sullivan's civic spirit will persist when it comes to setting the price at which the MDC will have...
Neil McElroy became Cincinnati's No. 1 civic participant, belonging to everything from the Community Chest to the opera association (as well as the Rookwood Historical and Philosophical Society, a bigwig, poker-playing group). In 1950 McElroy's public spirit took him to a luncheon for the president of Columbia University, who needed $25,000 to help finance Columbia's American Assembly, a series of conferences on public issues. After Columbia's president explained the project, McElroy asked him to "wait around for a few moments while I nail this thing together." On the spot...
...have attended the Los Angeles Bureau of Music's late spring, summer and early fall band concerts. The community-sing attendance is well over the million mark, despite the once-crippling inroads of television. We sponsor a citywide "Artists of the Future" youth voice contest and an avocational civic "pops" orchestra. Dig under the films, TV, radio and records, and the blandishments of the big names-the city of Los Angeles provides better citizenship through music...
...minority of four Cambridge Civic Association councilors may benefit from the disagreement among the Independents and succeed in electing one of their number. If they have their way, they will probably elect the city's first woman mayor, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise or Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler...
...Shulman plants a Nike missile base in Putnam's Landing, Fairfield County, Conn, and fuses the inevitable melee between mufti and khaki. Among the participants in this guffawlderol: a club-car Pagliaccio otherwise known as "Harry Bannerman, boy adulterer" whose inability to make a heavy date with his civic-minded wife drives him to guilt-ridden sessions "of candlelight and yum-yum" with a sex-famished neighbor; the neighbor's absentee husband, a cigar-chomping titan of TV; an amiable, lovesick sheep in second lieutenant's clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio...