Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood's cemetery of cemeteries, Forest Lawn, bears more than a casual resemblance to "Whispering Glades" of Waugh's novel. For one thing, Forest Lawn stresses works of art. On Good Friday, Forest Lawn unveiled a new one, a painting of the Crucifixion, found no man to challenge its proud claim that it is the biggest canvas in the world...
Since it was brought to the U.S. at the turn of the century, the vast canvas has been mostly rolled up in storage. In 1944 it was bought by Forest Lawn, which has constructed for it a special "Hall of the Crucifixion." There, behind an Italian Gothic façade, in a 2,000-capacity auditorium complete with airconditioning, hearing aids, earthquake-proofing and an electronically synchronized light beam to identify some of the picture's 1,123 life-sized figures, a tape-recorded spiel will describe the painting six times a day, seven days a week...
Radcliffe Yard groundsmen have started an active campaign against bicycles on the lawn by removing them to an out-of-the-way bicycle rack on Brattle Street. Twenty-five girls have already been victims of this purge...
...move, explained E. B. Gates, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, is designed to preserve both the beauty of the lawn, and the grass itself. If the present action is not effective, 'Cliffe cyclists will have to pay a $.25 fee to reclaim their bicycles...
...sunshiny day of the week by breaking out one of the natty summer outfits he had brought down with him-dark blue shirt with white border, green worsted slacks, white buckskin shoes -and held the only press conference of his vacation. For a full 40 minutes on the flowered lawn of the Little White House, the President posed for the photographers, patiently answered questions, and unburdened himself to the reporters with an ease and informality impossible to attain in his crowded Washington conference room...