Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some suspected that the description might fit Harry Truman, in spite of all the denials. Truman admires and trusts Krock, and might conceivably be trying-out the back door-to persuade his party to drop the Fair Deal in exchange for a candidate who could win and who could heal the split with the Southern Democrats. Next-ranking suspect was Democratic Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who dined with Krock at Washington's Carlton Hotel just before he went across the street to visit Ike at the Statler. Baruch categorically denied...
...before the Princess and the Duke landed, Huskey's State Department agents, the cops and plainclothesmen of the metropolitan police inspected every foot of the excursion routes. At the Washington Cathedral, for example, Huskey paced off cathedral rooms all one morning to see precisely how much walking would fit into the royal schedule. One of Huskey's safety principles is to keep his wards in motion. With this precaution, he allowed Washington street crowds to get much closer to the Princess than Canadian crowds were allowed...
...blame for such ignorance, said Gallup, can be leveled chiefly at the people themselves. They "have become so bent on entertainment that anything which doesn't fit easily and unconsciously into this groove tends to be ignored. The old-fashioned idea that everyone should keep 'abreast of the times' apparently has lost much of its earlier appeal." But Gallup raised a pertinent question for the press. Have editors "lost a sense of mission" and begun to worry too much, he asked, "about having the most popular comic strips and the most complete sports pages, and too little...
...football was still soccer until Harvard decided to turn its hand to the game again. In 1874, it organized a team, but couldn't find any opponents. The four schools with teams--Princeton, Columbia, Rutgers, and Yale--had full schedules playing each other and couldn't fit Harvard...
...only Crimson win since the war did not fit into the "win or tie at home" pattern. The contest, first after the war, took place at Princeton in 1946 and the visiting Crimson team took it by one conversion...