Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was the word from the manager of New London's gray and gaudy Griswold House, long synonymous with the revelry that goes with Yale-Harvard regattas, on the eve of the first post-war showing of this great sporting spectacle...
...black line-squall loomed in the northwest and lightning flared from cloud to cloud as United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
...secret research. These figures are the conclusion reached after a worldwide survey conducted by the New York Times under direction of its able Military Editor Hanson W. Baldwin. He believes that despite the disappearance of Germany and Japan as military powers, there are more soldiers today than on the eve...
...eve of May Day, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier called his precarious coalition Cabinet into an emergency session in the ornate Hotel Matignon. The five Communist ministers sat grim and silent. Thorez intently studied the gilt cherubs on the ceiling. Said Ramadier: "I ask you not to reverse a policy which is the right one for the nation...
...James Mann, psychiatrist at the Boston State Hospital and instructor in psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, will speak on the psychiatrist's view of anti-Semitism at the Sabbath eve services in the Hillel lounge, Friday at 8 o'clock...