Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngest passenger, a three-month-old girl, slept in her mother's lap. Hostess Cramsie had just walked to the rear of the plane to fix a cold snack for the other passengers. Later, only one passenger had a definite idea of what happened next. Paul Wolf, holiday-bound with his wife and daughter, thought he saw a pale, blue flash through the porthole...
Near-perfect pitching highlighted the freshman baseball team's two victories over the short holiday. Tuesday Luke Lockwood and Fred Vonderlage combined to pitch a no-hitter against New Prep as the freshmen romped to an 8 to 0 win; yesterday Bob Ward limited Cushing Academy to two hits in the Yardlings'2 to 1 victory...
...Beverly Hills, Calif. Canadian-born Actor Huston played his first Broadway bit (In Convict Stripes) in 1905, but spent 15 years in vaudeville before stage fame came to him (Eugene O'Neill's 1924 Desire Under the Elms, the 1938 Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently $7,500 a week). For his supporting role in Treasure of Sierra Madre, written and directed by his son John, he got an Oscar...
Easter was no holiday for Jasper McKee '51, a Washington, D. C., resident who was driving from New York to College. Just outside of New Haven, an angry bee caused him to stop his car and evict the hitch-hiker...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In his weekly "Editor's Notebook" column, Publisher John S. Knight wrote: "During previous vacations at Key West, you have thought the 'Editor's Notebook' was unnecessarily critical of presidential actions and decisions. In other words, when a fellow's on a holiday, he doesn't like to have his breakfast spoiled by reading uncomplimentary editorials . . . I think I understand how you feel, Mr. President, so I have asked our editors in Miami to call a halt on adverse criticism during your [vacation]." After that, presumably, Knight and his Miami editors would...