Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curtis ("Buzzie" Dall) Roosevelt, 25, a Manhattan advertising executive, who first won fame as a romper on the lawn when Grandfather F.D.R. lived...
...hand. Moreover, Sheriff McNally -a character who has to be unpleasant on principle, since the scriptwriter forgot to give him any specific motivations-mellows a little, too, and in the end they all charge off to Utah together as cheerily as vestrymen to a box supper on the church lawn. "Great Britain and the State of Utah," says Rory to Jean in a wobbly voice. "It's impossible...
Among Shapley's interests are his ant theories--"I've picked the creatures off stone walls in dozens of counties"--and his debunking of pseudo-science. At a faculty gathering, for example, a fellow professor recalls Shapley's pacing about the lawn with a divining fork, "only to reveal a Princeton instructor's hidden bottle...
Beck Hall was unsurpassed for its "sanitation, ventilation, convenience of location, and general comfort." It was more popularly famous for its annual class day spreads on the front lawn, and for its Japanese prince who supposedly spent thousands of dollars for teak living room panelling. The hall's lawn was also reserved for the elite, enclosing a grass tennis court on which many stars of the time played...
Last year all but 25 of the city's 500 schools were forced to call on Graham's agents. There were 25 cases of arson, 342 of vandalism, 182 of theft, 947 of burglary, 37 involving such miscellaneous matters as damage to a school lawn. But Graham's cases are steadily dwindling. The number of arrests last week: 24. The weekly average a year...