Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks for Prince Philip on the cover. As much as I admire the Queen and follow her travels, I am usually disappointed to find there is very little mention of Philip. Thanks for not keeping in the same rut as the other magazines...
...King David" stopped at a funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free air, rising skyscrapers, parks, bridges and elevated highways. At 68, running for a fourth term, crusty, cold-eyed Dave Lawrence is one of the last of the old city bosses. At the same time he is the dean of a new breed which realizes that...
...railroads, once fearsomely modern, were pleasantly passe. The automobile had crowded out the train as an everyday means of transportation, though people found that owning a car brought headaches as well as freedom, not to mention flat tires. Some of them (never very many) wondered if this kind of progress was really an improvement...
...Radcliffe hockey team placed two of its members on the all-college team at the annual Wellesley hockey playday Saturday. Halfbacks Ann Brace and Judy Fisher made the first team while Louise Bickford, fullback, was chosen to play on the second team, and Lyssa McSherry, forward, won honorable mention...
...admitted paying $500 to the author of "The Giants That Wreck Our Highways," which ran in Everybody's Digest; a film based on another Byoir-inspired article appearing in 1952 went out to small-town theaters under the production banner of the "Farm Roads Foundation." The film credits mention neither Byoir Associates, who wrote the script, nor the railroads, who anted up $60,000 of the production costs...