Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year celebrated Mills's goth anniversary and her 26th as its president by announcing her retirement. Mills's alarmed trustees prevailed on her to stay at least until 1943-A native San Franciscan (her father sailed around the Horn and her mother arrived from Ohio on horseback), Mrs. Reinhardt took over Mills as a young widow with two small boys, raised it from a dowdy finishing school to a western Vassar. Its students run their own affairs, are allowed to stay out until 2:30 a.m. and are Stanford men's favorite dates. Mrs. Reinhardt, whom...
Radio can send children searching for box tops to trade for tin whistles, or it can send them to the library to hunt good books; it can train them to expect a world in which a masked man on horseback holds off evil singlehanded, or it can train them to find and play their own role in society. Which type of program do American parents want? A woman who took part in the first children's program ever given in the U.S. has put out a slender book (All Children Listen; George W. Stewart; $1.50) calling on parents...
...empty bottles so cluttered the muddy, wagon-rutted streets that the town got its first name: Botilleas. On the great oak that stood on Main Street more than ten men were strung up. When nearby Double Springs was made county seat in 1851, civic-minded Jacksonians dashed over on horseback, hijacked the county seals, papers and archives. Every election was a horse race, fast riders hit every town and camp, voted so often that ballots outnumbered voters...
...sunny morning in Ankara last week German Ambassador Franz von Papen's son, Franz Jr., recently wounded on the Russian front, was riding horseback with his blonde sister Stefanie and friends. They heard a faraway explosion. "It must be artillery practice," said Franz Jr. But it was not. It was Franz von Papen Sr. being bombed...
...Author. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (The Maritime History of Massachusetts) has been described as a Boston Brahmin with a bite. Outwardly he is a tweedy, dignified, humorous patrician who at 54 is highly enthusiastic about sailing, skiing, horseback riding, wanes, U.S. history before 1760 and Christopher Columbus. His office in Harvard's Widener Library is scattered with books, maps, charts and pictures about the discoverer. He also has a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt which is autographed: "To my friend Sam Morison-Columbus...