Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven members of Harvard's ski team will journey to Colorado in spring vacation to represent the East in the National Collegiate Ski Championships. This will be the first time that the Crimson skiers have competed in these championships, and they are hoping to finish fifth in a field of eight...
Wrote Pegler: "The Empress Eleanor recently made a sentimental journey to the Deep South, and [it] prompted her to prattle discreetly about her fine old aristocratic Southern background. 'My grandmother was a Bulloch from Georgia,' she wrote . . . Nowhere [did she name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...
...Down to Sleep (adapted by Elaine Ryan from Ludwig Bemelmans' novel; produced by Nancy Stern & George Nichols 3rd) strongly suggests that the printed page is Ludwig Bemelmans' proper habitat. It certainly is for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: the journey from book to stage winds up much more baggage than Bemelmans. Moreover, any show calling for 13 lavish scenes, 50 frenzied characters, a tropical earthquake and the billowing Atlantic Ocean also calls for a composer and a choreographer...
...Louis Blues. Thomas Stearns Eliot began his journey through the waste land in the heart of a land of plenty. The youngest, most coddled of seven children, he was born (1888) in St. Louis, a city filled with the disorder of growth and a booming faith in the nation, in business, in machine-driven progress...
Sweden's King Gustaf V, 91, feeling better after a recent illness, was getting ready in Stockholm for a visit to the Riviera. Planning to accompany him on the three-day train journey: two nurses, his personal physician, his lord in waiting, his secretary, two valets...