Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the committee point out defensively, Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 hesitated for more than two months (from September to December) before naming the full committee. This wasted valuable time. The very size of the committee itself inhibits speedy decisions: the group includes representatives from Cambridge's many different elements--local neighborhood residents, professional social workers, representatives of the two Universities, and delegates from the City administration...
There was "Arizona Jimmy" Moore, wearing cowboy boots with his tuxedo, and Onofrio Lauri, whose favorite trick is to polish his bald pate with a handkerchief so that it will reflect the table lights into the eyes of his opponents. There, too, was Irving Crane, who in one year at Hobart College learned mostly how to run a rack so fast that his friends call him "Machine Gun." Luther ("Wimpy") Lassiter was on hand, cheerfully admitting that he has not done an honest day's work since he earned "810 an hour" delivering groceries at 15. Once Lassiter spotted...
...City of Angels used to be a place where culture feared to tread. But to day the traffic slowing down to neck-crane along Wilshire Boulevard is not looking for stars but admiring the shimmering complex of pavilions surrounded by a moatlike reflecting pool of vastly more substance and value than was ever to be seen in a DeMille superset. Only four months after the opening of its new Music Center, which packs pews each evening, the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens this week, making Los Angeles the artistic capital of the U.S. West...
...This street is too narrow to have buses parked right here," said the MBTA dispatcher who stands in front of Lehman Hall. "I'm just waiting for the day when a big truck comes from one way and a crane comes from another--we'll lose the side of a bus sure...
...seldom lead their commencement processions. Most Harvard prize winners grow up to be professors, many of them professors at Harvard. John H. Finley, Jr. '25 won $250 for a Bowdoin essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." Mason Hammond '25 won $50 apiece for translations in Greek and Latin. Clarence Crane Brinton '19 won an Elizabeth Wilder Prize in 1916, made to a Freshman in need of financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded out of the Charity...