Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Defense, Harvard Group, is sponsoring a drive to gather "recreational material" for the National Guard units and draftees training at Camp Edwards on Cape...
...fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears of Clark Gable. Boyfriends and husbands watch him without defensive squirming. Had Coop been a longshoreman he might well have been the most popular, if not the most active, man at the waterfront bars. Had he gone...
...England he sent a research chemist, Harvard's bespectacled young president, James Bryant Conant, as head of a mission to gather scientific data on England's machinery of war. Back from England came trusted Harry Hopkins. At LaGuardia Field, he told reporters: "I don't think Hitler can lick these people. I think he's up against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt...
...Manhattan last week Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, American Secretary of the World Council of Churches, announced that leading churchmen from North and South America would gather in Toronto next June "to consider the task of the Church in the present world crisis . . . with special reference to the kind of world order that will follow the present struggle." The Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, is also likely to be at Toronto. Last month he set a keynote for it by convoking the Malvern Conference in England (TIME, Jan. 20), which drew up a sweeping plan for postwar society...
...couples who are combining a tete-a-tete with a little pepper-upper. These people are usually pretty well occupied, and the waitresses have very little to do other than bring drinks at regular intervals. Across the way is the bar, where the real Cambridge tankmen gather to discuss the day's events and argue the relative merits of the various teams around Boston. This part of the Club is a little dull for those who are looking for color. If you want a bit of atmosphere, just climb on up the next set of stairs...