Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the dream came true: the Van Der Tuyns were on the high seas, bound for the U.S. and a new life. When they land at Hoboken this week, James Magee will be at dockside to welcome them. As their sponsor, he has promised to provide shelter for the Van Der Tuyns and their six apple-cheeked children, to help father Van Der Tuyn get a job. Back in Holland, Pfc. Magee's grave will not be forgotten: Madame Van Der Tuyn's sister has promised to care...
Every young territory dreams about statehood. For Alaska, no longer young but still vigorous, the dream seemed practically a fact last summer. Both party platforms were pledged to fulfillment of her territorial longing. The Democrats were vociferous in championing her admission, and the Republicans promised an "enabling act" to prepare for early action...
...last week almost every department had drawn up its own tentative blueprints. The English department is planning a course called "the American Dream and American Individualism." As a starter, students will trace these ideas through the novels of Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James and Faulkner, will then go on to study the books and criticisms of scholars...
...Dream. In Detroit, soon after a passenger announced that this was "a stickup" and told him to "keep on going," Cab Driver Arthur Stevens noticed that his fare had dozed off, kept on going to the police station...
Many a motorist has lived through the experience and awakened in his bed to find it was only a bad dream. Last week London Bus Driver Albert Gunter, 46, knew that it was no dream. With 20 passengers in his double-decker bus, Albert was just starting across the draw in London's Tower Bridge, as he had hundreds of times before. Suddenly, he said later, "it seemed as though the roadway in front of me was falling away." Albert started to jam on his brakes. Then he changed his mind...