Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pioneer Western Photographer William H. Jackson and his helpers clambered up the iced boulders of Colorado's wild Sawatch mountains with a bulky camera, primitive film, darkroom tent and developing chemicals to make the first photograph of a natural wonder: the Mountain of the Holy Cross. Jackson made thousands of other pictures, but Holy Cross was considered his masterpiece. Despite technical progress, the thousands of Holy Cross photographs made since never surpassed Jackson's famous picture. And none, it turned out last week, ever will...
Legend has it that two 18th century Spanish monks first found and named the 14,000-ft. mountain with the cross, formed by two great snow-packed crevices. After Jackson's picture made the mountain celebrated, pilgrims and plain tourists came by the thousands. Eventually, just 25 years ago, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the mountain a national monument. With due ceremony, Colorado last week began to celebrate the monument's 25th anniversary...
Governor Dan Thornton put out a proclamation, and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton called for "a pilgrimage in spirit to the Mount of the Holy Cross." On the City Hall carillon, Faith of Our Fathers and other suitable anthems were played. The Rocky Mountain News wrote: "The hand of the Creator wrinkled the brow of this majestic peak in a symmetrical cruciform that cradles the ice and snow of ages . . ." An apologetic mountaineer heard the bells, read the paper, and called the News to say that something had been overlooked. The left arm cross has been crumbling away from...
...doctrine that Negroes are entitled to"separate but equal"facilities, the old wall has been crumbling for nearly 60 years. But it was not until 19 years ago that Donald Murray entered the University of Maryland Law School under court order as the first Negro ever thus to cross the color line at a Southern campus. To Editor Ashmore, Murray's experience was fairly typical "At no time whatever,"wrote Murray,"did I meet any attempted segregation or unfavorable treatment on the part of any student in the school, or any professor...
...Crimson hitting, which has been dying rapidly in the past few games, finally dropped dead Saturday before the pitching of Holy Cross ace Ronnie Perry, who squelched the varsity without...