Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gazed from across the street at the big, abandoned mansion in Rutherford, N.J., the young facultyman from Columbia University fell to musing. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," said he, "to turn that place into a college?" Eventually, Peter Sammartino did just that, but the institution he founded was far from orthodox. Now known as Fairleigh Dickinson University, it is one man's aggressive but imaginative answer to the increasing demand for higher education...
...because they could not get the training they wanted. In 1941 Sammartino and a group of the principals began discussing plans for a two-year junior college, got Rutherford's wealthy (surgical instruments) Colonel Fairleigh S. Dickinson excited over the idea. Dickinson arranged the purchase of the abandoned mansion and turned it over to Sammartino. In 1942 the new college opened its doors...
Dior to work in a mansion at 30 Avenue Montaigne. There, as L'Express Fashion Editor FranÇoise Giroud once remarked, diffident Christian Dior was "unknown on the 12th of February, 1947, famous on the 13th." The overnight event that made Dior: the New Look...
...tendency toward fuzziness. It depends on hints or suggestions rather than definite, clear-cut statements. Most so-called cool jazz seems to have evolved from music played in low ranges−trombones, tenor and baritone saxophones." Clarinetist Shaw is currently living in Spain, building himself a huge stone mansion on the Costa Brava, and talking about retiring to live...
MANUEL PRADO, 67, candidate of his own personalist party and a former (1939-45) President, is the archetype of the Peruvian oligarch, wealthy from banking, real estate and industry. Sitting amidst the priceless antiques in his mansion, he says: "I am the man of the people...