Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Service Bureau, leviathan among its competitors, employs 12 typists and boasts the Square's one photo-offset machine. This device, which produces an even right margin, attracts a heterogeneous clientele--reports from the Dean's Office to programs for the Union Dance Committee. The Service Bureau professes stenographic friendship for students and faculty alike, but some people have stretched its good will, believing Service to include baby sitting and information on transcontinental trips...
Vincent Price, turned humorist as the lather leviathan, is superb. He dismisses intelligence with the air of someone who has been acquainted with radio and television for a long time. A lampoon of this industry has been a long-time. A lampoon of this industry has been a long-time in coming but director Richard Whorf, known to some as a Shakespearean actor, has allowed the direction to get out of hand. There are too many irrelevancies and not enough of the quip situations in which Mr. Colman can handle himself best. The picture should have run an hour...
...time of day, Yale students had a way of finding out where salty Professor Herbert L. Seward might be. In his office in Strathcona Hall stood the engine-room telegraphs that had once relayed orders from the bridge of the S.S. Leviathan. If the professor was going to class, he rang up "Full Speed Ahead." "Dead Slow" meant out to lunch; "Full Speed Astern" meant a faculty meeting. At the end of each day the professor signaled "Finished Engines...
...that he chose them for "the salt in their veins"; they in turn called him "the Skipper." The son and grandson of sea captains, Skipper Seward had come to know as much about ships as any man could. He had stood on the deck of the German-built Leviathan on its trial run after World War I, had been called in to advise on the raising of the Normandie. He was special wartime consultant to Navy Secretary Frank Knox, reorganized the curriculum of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London...