Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Library will stand (said he, when photographers asked for the inevitable "one more": "I'm halfway down to China now, fellas"). At a luncheon later, he spoke feelingly of the "very deep, sentimental meaning" that Abilene still holds for him. From its "heyday of, let's say, Wild West hilarity and even worse," Abilene has become a "community of Godfearing, hardworking, simple people. It seems to me there's a sort of cross section of the deep convictions that truly motivate...
...challenging painters and sculptors to match his genius, Wright created a very real and exciting tension, if a formidable one. Harry F. Guggenheim, Chairman of the Board of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, commented on the occasion saying, "Let each man exercise the art he knws." Frank Lloyd Wright exercised his; he left a challenge for the artists to match...
Dartmouth students always try to get at least a piece of the big drum, and when it returned from repairs in the Midwest in 1957 they especially wanted it. As the members of the Harvard Band faced the home stands and played "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," some Dartmouth fraternity pledges attacked the drum guards. The musicians turned around, were insulted to see the big drum being threatened, and ran to defend it. A half-time jam ensued with about 500 students throwing body-blocks and punches, but the musicians finally beat off their attackers with their instruments...
...couldn't stop. I lost count of what I was spending." From Montreal he flew back to New York's Statler Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room. He engaged it for a month to get the $30-a-day economy rate...
After changing shirts (one feels so confined in long sleeves) and opening the window (let the noise come in; if Thomas Wolfe could ignore it, so can I), he began to read...