Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tailor & Cutter, British trade magazine, picked the Marquess of Milford Haven as "the Sartorial Year's Best Man." Anthony Eden won the "Order of the Dead Needle" as "the year's big disappointment." Even the Canadian press had described Eden as "distinctly shabby," and he had made the shocking disclosure that he no longer had a tailor. But to British tailors the most painful sight of all was rumpled Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "We can think of no one else in a public position who seems to pay such little regard to his clothes...
...years later, back at New Haven, he began his teaching of 18th Century literature. He found it easy to follow the rule he gave would-be scholars: "You must fall in love with your subject." In time, he came to know as much about Johnson and Boswell as any man alive. His own boots, including the Tinker edition of Boswell's letters, were milestones in 18th Century scholarship, outdated only by the further probings of Chauncey Tinker himself. It was he who, tracing the leads all the way to Ireland in 1925, first confirmed the existence of the great...
...Phillips Brooks House sponsored settlement house basketball teams split decisions with their New Haven counterparts at Yale last Saturday...
...stars of the Boston Intersettlement League edged out the New Haven YMCA all-stars 41 to 39, while the Elizabeth Peabody House team, Boston League Champions, dropped a 43 to 31 decision to the New Haven YMCA longue winners...
...members of this year's ill-fated basketball team, Jack Richards and Walt McCurdy, have a chance to get back at the Blue this evening in New Haven when their charges, the champions of the Boston Inter-Settlement Basketball League, meet the best New Haven YMCA teams, sponsored by the Yale Christian Association...