Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to the 155-year-old Georgetown home of Mrs. McCook Knox set up even more barriers. Ramps had to be built to pull a camera off the street after the show got under way. A seven-story crane was moved into place to hoist a "cup" for relaying the TV signal out of the valley-like terrain of Georgetown. Just 45 minutes before show time, the Fire Department refused to let Morgan pull the switches on the TV equipment because it might overload the electrical circuits. Somebody talked the fire inspectors into going away while the technicians figured...
...Blackstone challenged a carpenter's union to build a box that could hold him. Shortly afterwards he found himself tied fast, squeezed into a box measuring 40 inches square. He was lowered by crane into a fast-rushing river. But suddenly the shaft-pin broke and the box fell into the water. When Blackstone smashed thought the pine wood bottom and came to the surface, he was dangerously close to some falls. He was but feet from the edge when he freed himself from his ropes and grabbed a cable stretched across the river to keep boats from going over...
...surprising to learn from Upton Sinclair that Stephen Crane, the short-lived author of The Red Badge of Courage, is categorized as a tosspot. After many years of research into the affairs of Stephen Crane, I feel compelled to state that Crane's drinking, social or otherwise, seemed less than enthusiastic . . . Over a half century ago when A Derelict, a short story by Richard Harding Davis, appeared, it was whispered among the literati that Channing, the more than generous newspaper correspondent of the tale, was actually Stephen Crane. Davis denied the supposed inference . . . I hope it is not about...
...reception for Mamie Eisenhower in Washington's Mayflower Hotel, a friend of Mamie's sister, Frances ("Mike") Moore, Mrs. Durries Crane, onetime ballerina with Chicago's Civic Opera, suddenly became aware of a horrifying coincidence: the First Lady wore a blue-and-green-print taffeta dress almost exactly like her own. In the reception line Mrs. Crane tried to conceal her own outfit with her mink cape, but Mamie spied the maneuver, gaily cried: "Don't hide it. I think it's pretty." Muttered blushing Ledova Crane: "It's not really the same...
Joining Cohen on the faculty committee for the department of History and Science will be: Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion; Werner W. Jaeger, University. Professor; C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History; Frank M. Carpenter '26, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology; Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics; and Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature...