Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sessions at Madison Square Garden and in meetings at midtown hotels, they talked about everything from juvenile delinquency to audio-visual aids. They elected a sprightly new president-Miss Waurine Walker of the Texas Education Agency-heard such notables as Mayor Robert Wagner and U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoöld. But for the most part, the effect of the convention was to remind the public once again that it was far from performing its proper duty towards the public schools...
...somewhat contradictory remarks, made a few weeks ago by the national commander of the American Legion, illustrate more clearly than any abstract editorial generalizations the present status of academic freedom in this country. Addressing two Legion posts gathered in New York's Madison Square Park for a Memorial Day service, Mr. Ray Murphy voiced the dire prediction that if this nation were ever overcome by Russia, "a lot of American citizens, most of them college graduates, would be ready, able, and willing to staff the new satellite of the Soviet...
Henry Steele Commager, Jr. '54 of Rye, N. Y., and Lowell House, Steven C. Frautschi '54 of Madison, Wis., and Kirkland House, and Nelson R. Lampert '54 of Minot, N.D., and Dunster House each received a $2400 Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowship, assigned to seniors of "promise and standing" in order to provide them "with facilities for further education by travel after graduation...
...lives in a $75,000 San Fernando Valley house with a piano-shaped swimming pool. Men who work with him find, somewhat to their surprise, that they like him as a nice, friendly, unassuming fellow. From the women, there is scarcely any dissent. After his triumphal show at Madison Square Garden last week, the fans stormed his dressing room. He stayed till 2 a.m., signing autographs...
Last week Hurricane blew into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to redeem himself. His mother had stopped nagging, he said. Like a good boy, Tommy had been trotting ten miles daily on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. In Stillman's Gym he had been pushing sparring partners around as he polished up his wild assortment of slaps, jabs, backhanded cuffs and spectacular double uppercuts. He had bothered little with the big bag. "Phooey to that," said Hurricane. "I like to box with guys. A big bag can't punch back. I like to get hit. Then I fight...