Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tanned by the Barbados sun, the wear & tear of November's electoral defeat apparently erased by a restful holiday, Adlai Stevenson returned last week to the political arena. The setting for his first major address since the Eisenhower victory was the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. There, before 1,700 Democratic bigwigs assembled for the $100-a-plate Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner, Stevenson assumed the mantle of leader of the constructive opposition...
...celebrate the long holiday, CRIMSON photographers have placed an exhibition of their work on the fifth level of Lamont...
...short holiday in Garmisch, Germany, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, with his wife Penny and four-year-old son Matt Jr., watched the world championship bobsled races. To get into the spirit of the occasion, the general borrowed a pair of skis, got a few pointers from the nearest experts, and took off. Result: a beginner's traditional pratfall picture by an alert photographer...
...Holiday. In Tenafly, N.J., Harold Williams, a daily commuter to New York City, won third prize in a booksellers' contest: a trip to New York City...
Nevertheless it had happened, and, to everyone's surprise, the town's 4,000 schoolkids didn't like it at all. Instead of taking a holiday, they held mock funerals for their district, lowered the high-school flag to half-mast, smeared red paint over the house of one of the leading abolitionists. Meanwhile Superintendent Dale Douglas ("I'm a chief without Indians!") began appealing to the county superintendent for help, and was told that the county could only take over small communities with 125 students or less At week's end the citizens...