Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut's Ernest Fiene; with a bit left over, Halseth started a fund to buy Grandma Moses' $400 oil, Staunton, Virginia, The kids put on dances, stage shows, wastepaper campaigns, badgered their parents for contributions. People as far away as Manhattan heard about Rock Springs' art craze, wrote advice on what to buy, sometimes even donated paintings. Once, Halseth read that Thomas J. Watson, board chairman of International Business Machines, had commissioned some paintings. "I got out my Who's Who and looked up Watson's address and asked him for one," says Halseth. Businessman...
Columbia's Contemporary Civilization course, conceived in 1919, is parent of the modern American craze for "General Education." The "Great Books" and "integrated study" courses have their roots in this 33-year old experiment...
...leading makers of microscopes.* Its founder, Ernst Leitz, a German who had worked with a Swiss watchmaker before settling in Wetzlar, introduced the watch industry's mass-production technique to microscopy. When the Leica was added as a sideline, the tail began wagging the dog. As a worldwide craze for miniature cameras and candid photography grew, so did Leitz. By World War II, the company had 3,000 employees and was grossing $10 million a year. Then it concentrated on war work, and was so vital to the Nazi war industry that U.S. heavy bombers tried thrice to knock...
...newest and noisiest college craze-the pantie raid-reached the epidemic stage. Night after night from coast to coast last week college boys leaped and howled like Comanches under the windows of squealing coeds; by week's end, despite arrests, expulsions, editorial blasts, and the best efforts of police riot squads-a few of whom even used tear gas-pantie raiders had made night hideous at 52 different colleges and universities...
Members of the older generation greeted the new craze-the first really daffy outbreak by U.S. college students since the days before World War II-with unconcealed irascibility. "It's going too far," said 34-year-old Teacher Gordon Southworth of Riverdale Country School in New York. "This pantie snatching is a case of sensualism . . ." Considering the source, it was a crushing rebuke, for on March 31, 1939, when an undergraduate himself, Gordon Southworth had made his contribution to the craze of the year by swallowing 67 live goldfish at one sitting-and had eaten a peanut butter sandwich...