Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firemen raised a ladder to the third floor window and completed the job of extinguishing the fire with fog-spray equipment. One wall and a section of floor were partially burned through, and a couch, a rug, and two pairs of skis were destroyed. Steven C. Swett '56 and William E. Lingelbach '56, residents of the room, estimated personal property damage at about...
...Plane in a Fog." This week 11,000 men and women jammed Harringay Arena for the first of Billy Graham's sessions. Some 3,000 more had to be turned away. Speaking from a sky-blue pulpit under a mammoth cube that hung from the middle of the roof with the same text on each of its four sides ("Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"), Evangelist Graham slowed down his usual machine-gun delivery for the benefit of British ears and moderated his usual platform prowl in deference to British dignity. But the message...
...Fog and goalie Blair Torrey may rise up again this year to check the varsity hockey team's quest for the Pentagonal crown. Even without the fog shrouding Hobey Baker Rink, if Tiger Torrey is on, the Crimson can expect to have a very rough time at Princeton this afternoon...
Time was when the venerable (since 1911) 2,000-mile Monte Carlo Rally was an adventurous endurance race rich in such hazards as rutted roads, unreliable engines and collapsing tires. Even in recent years, sleet, ice and blinding fog have brought hazard and death to the competitors. But last week, blessed by the balmiest weather in Rally history, a record percentage of finishers-331 of 363 starters-whizzed through the flag-draped finish gate on Monte Carlo's Quai Albert Premier. The only American entrant, Frederick Cramer, 48, a history professor from Mount Holyoke College, summed up this year...
...Forbes, daughter of a pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts clan, one of whose 17th-century members died in jail while awaiting trial for witchcraft. There is little witchcraft, unfortunately, in Author Forbes's latest novel, Rainbow on the Road, and the plot is frugal even by Yankee standards. A solid fog of research muffles her characters, but whenever it lifts for a page or two, the sights and sounds of the New England countryside around 1830 come through in a kind of pastoral tone poem...