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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fired? In Salt Lake City, Mayor Adiel F. Stewart abruptly halted a flowery speech observing the retirement of Fire Chief J. K. Piercey when the chief nudged him, said, "There's some mistake. I'm not retiring...
With this couplet, G. K. Chesterton hymned the traditional British inability to get from place to place by a direct route. About the only straight roads on the island are those laid out atop old Roman roads like famed Watling Street, which makes a 160-mile run from London to Wales. In the days of gas rationing, austerity and fewer cars, it was possible for the lucky few to speed across country or through cities with ease. But last week, its inadequate road net jammed with 8,000,000 cars, 1,500,000 motorcycles and uncounted millions of bicycles, Britain...
...radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than 35,000). Their women wear cute nautical jewelry: port (red) and starboard (green) earrings, charm bracelets that spell i LOVE YOU in colorful International Code flags, mast-shaped scatter pins emblazoned with code flags reading K-U-Z-I-G-Y (International Code for PERMISSION GRANTED TO LAY ALONGSIDE...
...When I see a motorboat coming," says one shaky sailor from Baltimore, "I say to myself, I am a sailboat; I have the right of way. Then I get the hell out of there." Investment Banker Julian K. Roosevelt (of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) recalls the day on Long Island Sound when a power boat pulled alongside his father's 60-ft. schooner Mistress. The intruder bellowed: "Hey, Mac! Which way to port Jefferson?" Says Roosevelt with deep satisfaction: "I answered him in his own way and said, 'First turn to your right, Mac!'" Harrumphs a fellow...
Among Faculty members who have attended the dinners are Dean Bundy and Professors John M. Bullitt, Charles R. Cherington, I. Bernard Cohen, Raphael Demos, Oscar Handlin, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, Harry T. Levin, Henry A. Murray, Leonard K. Nash, David Riesman, and Samuel A. Stouffer...