Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senior Harry Sacks, Harvard's leading basketball scorer for the past two seasons has quit the Crimson squad and will not be in uniform tonight when the Crimson faces a very strong Columbia quintet at the IAB. A JV game against Fort Devens will start at 6:00, with the varsity game due to begin...
...Guardia admire each other. For warplanes the rebels started out with two T-6 trainers, one F47 fighter and one DC-3 transport; Tacho's air force included identical planes. A captured rebel said that he was billeted for pre-invasion training at the Nicaraguan Guard's Fort Coyotepe (another insurgent reported he had been trained at Chiquimula, in Guatemala). But Tacho expertly concealed the hard evidence needed to prove Nicaragua's complicity to the satisfaction of the peace-keeping Organization of American States' field investigators, who announced only that the invaders' arms came over...
Ironically, even the earliest painters of the West were recording an already vanishing era. The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak. Paris-trained Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist...
...Word. In Fort Worth, Mrs. M. E. Johnson complained to the city council that her tavern business was suffering from a plague of divinity students who clustered so thickly outside her door preaching sidewalk sermons that prospective customers had to elbow their...
...under arms than the enemy could muster. Realizing that the salaries paid penal officers could never compete with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway system) a tank--a weapon that could wreak more havoc against the enemy than they could possibly do to us. The fact that the warden would not let this weapon within his gates (and, incidentally, that...