Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first answer is, "One very nice effect is that people I hadn't heard from in years suddenly began to write and I love that, you know. I even had a letter from someone I hadn't seen since Manila in '44." On the subject of his traditional hat he says, "When I was a kid in New York everyone over 21 wore a hat, unless you were a creep." And when he thinks about the recent movie offers and his agent's maneuverings, the shuddering reaction is, "I never had two nickels to put together and when she calls...
...revival started in Maine back in 1939. For old times' sake, three Bostonians rode up to Biddeford one Fourth of July to be aboard the last run of the Biddeford & Saco Street Railroad's Car 31. At the end of the line, they spontaneously passed the hat among the passengers, added enough of their own money to make $250, and bought the car at the price it would have brought for scrap. They moved it into some pasture land in nearby Kennebunkport, and thus began the Seashore Trolley Museum, the nation's oldest and largest. Today...
...entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven U.S. and foreign lines have ordered 93 of the $5.1 million planes. United, which has ordered 30, will start the first QC service in August, hauling passengers seven hours...
...take off my nonexistent hat from my conforming haircut to Alan Miller [May 27]. His parents also I salute for not allowing their son to be railroaded into the stifling world of conformity. Our society is desperate for educated people who have retained a grain of individuality after the typically narrowing experience of a public school education. I know not the length of Superintendent Smith's hair, but he apparently wears it thick and long, perpetually covering both eyes and both ears. The barber is being called for the wrong person...
Eminent retiring professors are always likely prospects, but every so often the Fellows throw a change up and pick someone who's still teaching. (Douglas Bush, retiring Gurney Professor of English Literature, got a Litt.D. in 1959, for example.) So they might just pull William Alfred out of the hat...