Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forest ranger, in his natty green uniform and campaign hat, strikes the national imagination as a sort of 20th century Robin Hood who lives a lonely life in a tower and periodically saves the bosky heritage from burning up and luscious lady campers from death. Today's ranger still fights forest fires, but he does his scouting from a plane instead of a lonely tower, lives cosily in a town with his wife and children, and spends about one-third of his 40-hour work week at a desk, shuffling papers...
Late last year a liveried chauffeur began poking around the French Riviera, seeking a country mansion to suit the tastes of his employer, an anonymous Paris industrialist. Through a Paris real estate office, he finally negotiated the purchase of a stately, green-shuttered pink villa. Price for the estate, which sprawls near the Aga Khan's Cannes hideaway: $90,000. The tipoff that the new owner was no ordinary industrialist came last November, when the locals learned that he had ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious...
...book was followed by a rash of reports about tiny red Martians tumbling out beside an Italian farmhouse, a long-legged, long-haired spaceman chasing two Norwegian milkmaids across a field, and little green men landing in France wearing plastic helmets, orange corsets or Cellophane wrappers. Now a 32-year-old British thrilier-writer, amateur stargazer and bird watcher named Cedric Allingham reveals that he bumped into a six-foot Martian last Feb. 18 on a lonely Scottish moor not far from where the Loch Ness monster used to sport...
...Student Council will provide advisers if a forthcoming Freshman Year Report indicates a need for them, according to John R. Green '56, Student Council president. Report Committee chairman John F. Merrifield '55 said, "There is a good chance that the Report will consider such an advising system. I think it would be a very good thing." The Report is expected to appear in April...
...same night for teams representing the same school, were two of six record breakers at the I.A.B. pool on Saturday. Unfortunately, both squads didn't emerge winners. The varsity defeated Dartmouth, 8 to 36, though the score should have been 55 to 29, but the Yardlings fell to their Green contemporaries...