Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London's Daily Express predicted that the highlight of Princess Margaret's 24th-birthday party, an intimate royal affair at Balmoral Castle, would be an announcement of her engagement to the Honorable Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 27, heir to a barony and a multimillion-dollar chemical fortune. With gossipists all agog, the Express's guess proved a total fizzle. Arriving at Balmoral, young...
...recently mailed out to journalists, educators and advertisers a booklet entitled A Matter of Manner. Its purpose is to highlight the quality of TIME'S writing, a quality that we are inclined to take for granted when we think in terms of TIME'S primary job of covering the news...
Sophomore Dave Hawkins broke the Crimson breast stroke record for the third time this year and established a new pool mark to highlight the varsity swimming rout of Columbia, 69 1/2 to 14 1/2 at the I.A.B. on Saturday night. The undefeated Crimson has now won nine straight...
...highlight the plight of modern-day humor, the title piece focuses on a psychiatrist and his neurotic patient who stymie each other with the question, "What do you want?" The doctor finally admits that what he really wants is a new wing for his house in the suburbs. Going home, the patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near...
...Highlight of the weekend, the formal dance, will be held tomorrow evening in the Union. Two orchestras will provide continuous music: George Wein's Storyville Band will play for the bulk of the evening, while Al Drootin and his orchestra will play during intermission...