Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Previewing a style that might catch on for such sports as spelunking or Gaelic football for girls, Queen Elizabeth II donned black boots, bright white helmet and floppy boiler suit for a visit to the Rothes Colliery in Fife. As Britain's first pit-hopping Queen, Her Majesty drew gushes for the garb from the watchful press, even earned a wee handclap from fussy Royal Couturier Norman Hartnell: "Being English, of course she looks marvelous in all sports clothes...
...dusty, tiny (pop. 5,000) Monteforte Irpino, the Italian village his father left 50 years ago to migrate to the U.S. After viewing the site of the old family home (razed years ago), De Sapio, who speaks no Italian, walked through flower-and-confetti-strewn streets with the mayor, drew the hoopla reserved for rich visitors: a brass band, fireworks, cheering crowds. But with the splendor came word of Monteforte Irpino's terrible needs: the pastor asked Carmine to sponsor a sawmill in the factoryless village; the police chief wanted money for a sewage system. Smiling through...
Hungary's Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, whose courageous sermons drew crowds even after he was in deep political disgrace with the Red regime, will no longer appear in Hungarian pulpits...
...American Society for Psychical Research, encouraged the "young and eager psychic," and soon Ford was in London, way beyond the league of Snoddy, Tubby or even Moody. One night, several hundred pounds sterling worth of gems manifested themselves at a seance patronized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ford drew a garnet...
Fine Thing. In Venice, Calif. Frank H. Peyton who quit driving 15 years ago because he had never got a ticket and did not want to spoil his record drew a suspended $5 jaywalking fine on his 97th birthday...