Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studious men will find the library filled with texts, reference books, and fiction, French, German, economics, history, and pre-med scholars gather in the dining hall and common rooms periodically, to discuss their fields. In addition to a large and varied collection of classical records, the House boasts, more than $800 worth of jazz discs...
Railroad enthusiasts become highly indignant if you mention the similarity between little boys playing with choo-choos, and men toying with models. They insist their approach is scientific and they point to large organizations in New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, where successful and prominent citizens gather to tinker with model trains...
...loud cries on all sides. The New York Yankees, who thought they needed Pettit as much as anybody else did, bellowed that the Stephani operation was highly irregular, even though they had submitted a bid themselves. Commissioner "Happy" Chandler, who had a scout of his own in California to gather facts for him, promised to look into the matter. But at first blush it looked as though the Pirates had a clear title-provided they hadn't dickered directly with Pitcher Pettit before graduation...
Tired Restaurateurs. Last week hope bloomed in Hamburg. Lord Mayor Max Brauer was home from a six-week visit to the U.S., where he had seen Secretary of State Dean Acheson and talked with investment bankers. "From all I could gather," he told fellow Hamburgers, "restrictions on German shipbuilding will be lifted very soon, certainly...
Died. Ernest Poole, 69, author of the first Pulitzer Prizewinning novel (His Family, 1917); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born into a wealthy Chicago family, Princetonian Poole (voted "Most Useless" by his class of '02) submerged himself in Manhattan's lower East Side to gather material on how the other half lived, won fame a dozen years later with a tale of New York's poor (The Harbor...