Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois look very suspiciously like rush jobs. (Busch's appeared just before the Democratic Convention and Martin's soon after). Basically, they are overblown news stories, combining amateurish attempts at character analysis with homey anecdotes about the Governor frolicking with his kids on the front lawn. Neither book is well written because, I suppose, quotations, homily, and hum-drum are incompatible with polished prose. At best, they are slick...
...cocktail party given by MGM's Production Chief Dore Schary. Hollywood offered comforting evidence that many a torrid summer romance with Eisenhower had ended in a reconciliation with the Democratic Party to which most screen people have been attached since New Deal days. Gathered on the Scharys' lawn were more than 600 of Hollywood's big fry. Moving through the crowd, Actress Lauren Bacall excitedly told of her shift from Ike to Adlai. "Bogie hasn't switched yet," she explained, "but I'm working...
Caught in a spirited crossfire of editorial criticism and scholarly sniping, State Parks Director Ray Hubbs called on members of Governor Adlai Stevenson's Lincoln Advisory Committee to settle the issue. When committee members assembled on the Lincoln lawn, they were confronted by Archeologist Hagan and Miss Virginia Stuart Brown, custodian of the house and a leader of the "leave-it-white" faction. Mr. Hagan was armed with a small piece of Lincoln house board which he had scraped down to a basic color described as "hound-dog yellow." Miss Brown, distressed at the prospect of a hound...
...lawn tennis grew up at the Newport Casino. There, from 1881 until 1914, the earliest National championship matches were played.* The Newport Invitation men's singles tournament is still ranked by many as second only to the Nationals...
...summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that wasn't a sufficient answer, Kate figured it should have been...