Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas Danner '46 Naval ROTC, will succeed O'Day as chairman of the committee for the MacMillan Cup, for which members of the yachting association compete annually. The final dinghy event of the 1943 season, a Brown University invitation meet held November 7 at Providence, was won by the cadets of the Coast Guard Academy, with M. I. T. taking second honors...
...once wrote an article entitled "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat," sold at auction his influential collection of modern, mostly French art. The 1019 items offered at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries put a total of $181,747 into "Crownie's" elegantly tailored pocket and the event itself had the quality of social luster, with a note of high gaga, which he dearly loves...
...Friendly Tone. This vignette of how Britain's Prime Minister first heard of the historic event was related last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who got it from friends of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Harriman. The anecdote was a pertinent comment on U.S. and British newscasting styles.* Its counterpart could scarcely have happened in the U.S.-especially with George Fredric Putnam† at the microphone...
...this is John Snagg reading it: The world came to an end at two minutes after three this afternoon, during a debate in the House of Commons. A summary of the debate will be given at the end of this bulletin. Due to the unusual nature of the event and also to the fact that he was away at the time, Mr. Churchill could not be reached immediately to comment on the policy which His Majesty's Government intends to pursue regarding the situation...
This book is not only an unusual act of literary fraternity, it is a literary event. For Eliot's authority as a critic is great, and by using it in Kipling's behalf, he has done much to restore Kipling to his place as an important English poet...