Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost his money, became a dairy farmer with young Steve's help. By janitoring and chauffeuring, young Mitchell worked his way through Creighton University prep school at Omaha. Later, he worked in the credit and sales promotion departments of General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Washington, studied law at Georgetown University at night. In 1932, he moved to Chicago, set himself up as a corporation lawyer, soon had a lucrative practice. (Best-known client: Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago.) Mitchell became friendly with Stevenson in 1945, when the two men would sit up late at night talking law. Mitchell...
...because they were too young. They found an unemployed clerk, armed him with samples of their work and got him hired on a paper. For months they worked as his ghost. Because they worried about being so much alike, they split up and went to different colleges; Mustafa to Georgetown to study international relations, Ali to Sheffield in England to take mechanical engineering...
...most cases and on most campuses girl students seemed to welcome and even abet them. Georgetown University, a Catholic men's college in Washington, B.C., was invaded, in fact, by an automobile caravan of squealing females. Scores of students poured out after them before faculty members stepped in and sent both forces into sheepish retreat...
FROM HIS HOUSE on Woodley Road he sets out daily to the intelligent lunch, the enlightening interview at the Carlton or the Willard; only rarely he visits the turbulent Hill; sometimes he garners a few words heavy with meaning in the late afternoon in a Georgetown parlor...
...developed a bitter hatred for Roosevelt. Doris Fleeson got a divorce from the column and O'Donnell. She did a short term as a war correspondent for the Woman's Home Companion, then settled down to columning in Washington, where she set up a home in Georgetown for herself and her 20-year-old daughter, a Vassar student. Says she: "I hit people hard sometimes," but they seem to take it because they know "I do that to everyone...