Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next twenty-seven minutes proceed much like the first, except that remarks like "Whadja think they were rowin 'at?" replace discussions of Crane Brinton and similar workaday topics among the shopkeepers...
...Hilda Crane (20th Century-Fox) was originally a series of short stories about an aging and raddled Manhattan career girl who tries to settle down to the straight and narrow in her old home town. In 1950 Author Samson Raphaelson adapted his theme to a Broadway play, starring Jessica Tandy as the lady who finds an overdose of sleeping pills easier to take than smalltown living...
...first official ringer of the Lowell House bells was as Russian as the zvon itself, which had belonged to the Danailovsky Monastery in Moscow. The bells were donated to the University in 1930 by Charles R. Crane, former United States ambassador to China, who puchased them from the Soviet Union...
...Crane bought the bells at the persuasion of Thomas Whittemore, a romantic figure who had been active in the Russian Relief during World War I. Whittemore was interested in rescuing at least one of the characteristic Russian peals from the anti-religious zeal of the Communist regime...
...James Crane Kellogg III. 40, senior partner in Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, biggest firm of Stock Exchange specialists, was nominated to be chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Almost certain to be elected next month, he will succeed Harold W. Scott, who is resigning because the job (principal duty: liaison between the Board of Governors and the permanent staff under President Keith Funston) takes too much time from his business activities. Kellogg went to Williams College for two years, quit at the age of 19 to start in Wall Street as a runner. He moved onto the stock exchange...