Word: laurels
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...Drunkard's Path. Some drew from the Bible, such as Rose of Sharon, Star of Bethlehem, or Jacob's Ladder. Others were celebrations of American history: Whig's Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate God's perfection and thus tempt divine wrath...
...Lindsay Schieffelin, 47, Long Island socialite, only sister of New York City's Republican Congressman and Mayoral Candidate John Vliet Lindsay, wife of Boat Manufacturer Cooper Schieffelin; apparently of accidental drowning in the family estate's 40-ft. pool, where she swam every night before retiring; in Laurel Hollow...
...mother of Dante Alighieri, not long before his birth, had a dream in which her son, having eaten the berries of a laurel tree, grew up and was miraculously transformed into a shimmering peacock...
Died. Stan Laurel, 74, slim, sad-eyed master mime who with the late Oliver Hardy made some 300 of Hollywood's slaphappiest movies in the 1920s, '30s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed...
...Named for Philippine Senator Jose P. Laurel and New Hampshire Newspaper Publisher James M. Langley, who headed the study groups appointed by Presidents Eisenhower and Magsaysay that in 1956 ultimately amended the decade-old Philippine Trade...