Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light oarsmen deserve better treatment for several reasons. They have occupied an official place in Harvard's athletic roster since the early twenties. In Bert Haines they have one of the finest and most colorful of crew coaches. Last season they rowed alternately 150 and Junior Varsity and went through the season undefeated in both classes...
Reading for Pleasure. In his suite the P.M. sometimes played checkers with his personal secretary, James Handy. He read light fiction, and he leafed through a pre-publication copy of a new book about Canada's Russian spy conspiracy, which devoted considerable space to the Prime Minister. He liked it. He took time for some writing, too. He got letters out of the way (one thank-you note to the hotel owner apologized for his poor handwriting), and he worked a few hours every day on a new book on labor relations, a pet King subject...
...that Evelyn is a looker. She stands a solid 6 ft. in heels and hairdo, looks a well-seasoned 30 even in kindly after-dinner light. But as she drifts regally between tight-packed tables, cased in her working harness (a high-necked, pink-&-blue job by Sophie of Saks, encrusted from top to toe with 20 pounds of bead-work), Evelyn suggests a youthful Magda Lupescu. And when she finds a suitable ringside male, she manages to convey, crooning to the poor Joe from a good six feet off, that she is twisting her fingers in his hair...
...birthday party she took over Convention Hall so that her family of 1,700 could eat-but not drink-and make merry. Leathery Robert McLean, president of the Bulletin and of the A.P., would make a little speech. And rays from the star Algol, which take 100 light years to reach Philadelphia, would trip the switch that lighted the six-foot birthday cake...
Alleghany Corp.'s Robert R. Young took a light drubbing from the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It knocked out his hope of getting control of the Pullman sleeping-car business. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had bid for it when anti-trust action forced Pullman, Inc. to put the business up for sale. But Young's bid had been thrown out in favor of one made by a pool of 43 other railroads. Young had cried "monopoly." So had the Department of Justice, which put the matter up to the Supreme Court. But the Court...