Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the turn of the century until World War II cut off the supply of foreign riders, six-day grinds were a big-time sport with big-town sports. The races used to pack such vast arenas as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, and the smoke-heavy air vibrated with cheers for Italy's Maurice Brocco, Belgium's Gerard Debaets or Australia's iron man, Reggie McNamara. Song pluggers used the occasions to intone their wares. Pickpockets, purse snatchers, coat grabbers and assorted Broadway hoodlums worked overtime all week. Such flashy spenders as Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
...house her haul. Catherine built a series of apartments adjoining Leningrad's baroque Winter Palace, set up a hanging garden filled with orange trees (that were hustled inside for the winter), and coyly nicknamed the place her "little hermitage." When the revolution came in 1917, the Hermitage was squarely in the middle. For four turbulent months Kerensky's provisional government holed up in the adjoining Winter Palace. After gaining control, the Bolsheviks confiscated the top private art collections in the country, turned the Winter Palace into a massive, 1,000-room art gallery and office building, and opened...
...Angeles, Westerners turn out to hear lectures on Zen by Alan W. Watts, a former Anglican priest and now a professor at the American Academy of Asian Studies. In Manhattan, the First Zen Institute of America is holding three meetings a week for some 100 members. In an aromatic garden in Kyoto, the first Zen study center in Japan for Westerners was formally opened this month. Last week its builder, Ruth Fuller Everett Sasaki, Chicago-born widow of a Zen teacher, announced that enough new U.S. students were expected so that a new meditation hall would have to be built...
...were one of the first dreams of the Atomic Age, but the dream has taken a long time to turn into reality. Most atomic batteries have produced too little elec tricity, or have stopped working after too short a time. This week the Walter Kidde Nuclear Laboratories, Inc. of Garden City, N.Y. told about a new and apparently practical kind of atomic battery developed for Elgin National Watch...
Track, B.A.A. Meet in the Garden...