Word: maroon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such charges miss the mark by miles, entailing basic mistakes about Milton Eisenhower as a man and about his relationship with Ike. Shy, extremely sensitive to criticism, Milton is no man to wear his private character on his public sleeve. The man behind the maroon cover of Who's Who is no heavy-footed bureaucrat ; he plays his part in the Government with the same soft touch that he uses on the pedals of the Hammond organ in his Johns Hopkins residence-in stocking feet. Far from being a doctrinaire ax grinder, he bends over backward to present objective...
...Lake View High School magazine, he broke into type at 16 with an essay on the Russian Revolution. At 20, English Major Gunther wrote 20 U.S. publishers that he would review their books in a literary column he had started in the University of Chicago's Daily Maroon, followed up by soliciting puffs on the column from such critical luminaries as H. L. Mencken and Harry Hansen...
...came to substance during conferences around the octagonal table in the White House Cabinet Room. There Ike sat in his regular chair, back to the French doors leading to the Rose Garden. Across from him, in the chair usually reserved for Vice President Nixon, sat Harold Macmillan, a maroon cardigan sweater buttoned under his grey sack suit, the stump of a dead cigar in his hand. Their relationship, long friendly, grew closer during the week (although Ike called him "Harold," Macmillan stuck to "Mr. President"). So it was at other levels, e.g, as between Dulles and Great Britain...
...schmalz Violinist George Liberace, inseparable brother of schmalz Pianist Wladzui Valentino Liberace, strolled through the Chicago night, two thugs pulled up alongside in a maroon convertible, hopped out and accosted him. One growled: "Give us everything you have!" George politely declined, was slugged with a pistol, soon roused from a fog to tot up his losses: $50 in cash, a $1,500 onyx and diamond ring, a $25,000 fiddle (the violin was located, along with two prime suspects, at week...
...stay and an occasional junket to Chicago for the Crimson eleven might not unduly strain Mr. Bolles' budget. Harvard has a large alumni clan in the greater Chicago area, and the Ivy teams have always drawn well in the midwest. Chicago itself is a well-known institution and a Maroon eleven of Ivy League caliber should be a good gate attraction...