Word: fading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size of the crowds that came to hear his speeches-27,000 at the 75,000-seat Cotton Bowl in Dallas, 15,000 at a high-school stadium in Fort Worth-but his critics were probably hasty-hopeful in counting empty seats as evidence that he had begun to fade away. In each city, nearly everybody turned out to see him on the parade route; the stadium crowds were small for a football game but large for an evening speech, particularly when it could be heard more comfortably on the radio or seen...
...announcer to say a few words. He obliged with some old memories of Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson and Lou Gehrig, ended by throwing his favorite punch line with a slight twist: "Unlike old soldiers who never die, unfortunately these men did, but American sportsmanship will never let their memory fade away." Next, in black tie and double-breasted dinner jacket, he turned up at the theater to see Mary Martin in South Pacific, the general's first Broadway show in 20 years. Later, he enjoyed a dressing-room chat with the star. Asked what song he preferred, Mrs. MacArthur...
...soldiers may fade away, but emeritus professors keep right on working. This year, Sidney B. Fay, '96, professor of History, emeritus, came out of retirement on two-days notice to give History 132 when William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, was called to Washington...
...sell for $95 in about 60 stores all over the U.S., including San Francisco's Roos Bros., Boston's Kennedy's, Kansas City's Palace Clothing Co. Suits made from Dacron are lighter and cooler than summer-weight wool, will not wrinkle, stretch or fade; the crease in the trousers can only be removed with a hot iron. Last summer, Witty made experimental suits for 200 test customers. One man accidentally tumbled out of a canoe while wearing his Dacron suit; after hanging the suit up to dry for a few hours, he took it down...
...like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye...