Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concert of Voices. The momentum of U.S. diplomacy carried even farther than Saud. Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, a tried and true U.S. friend himself, met with the President, conferred with Saud, observed to waiting reporters that the King is a "real friend of the U.S." Still another Middle Eastern voice, that of natty Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq, was raised in the fresh Washington harmony. Like Saud, with whom he met after seeing the President, Illah was speaking for a bloc-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq-which is already closely allied with the West through membership (with...
...Boston interests were not exclusively devoted to Theologians Tillich and Wieman. He had met Coretta Scott, a pretty and talented soprano who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. Their early dates were less than completely successful. "The fact that he was a minister made me shy away," recalls Coretta. "I had an awful stereotype in my mind." The suitor broke the stereotype: in June 1953, Coretta and King were married on the front lawn of her home in Marion, Ala. Just 15 months later they arrived in Montgomery to take up full-time pastoral duties...
...object of this Society," announces the Constitution of Phi Beta Kappa, "is the promotion of literature and friendly intercourse among scholars." But the transformation of the society from a social as well as literary organization, which met as often as once a week in the early nineteenth century, to the honor society of today, which meets only three times a year, has delegated this "promotion of literature" mainly to the yearly literary meeting, at which one oration and one work of poetry are presented...
...history of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard has been one of development from the fraternity which met regularly at Porter's Tavern in the early years of the 19th century to the more formal honors society of today...
Tunes of this type predominate in the top ten, including Fats Domino's "Blue Monday", Ivory Joe Hunter's "Since I Met You", and Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues". There are, though, some nice ballads moving up: Pat Boone's "Don't Forbid Me", Johnny Mathis's "Wonderful, Wonderful" and George Hamilton IV's "Only One Love." Hamilton, who next to Elvis is the most interesting young singer around, is sure to have a hit as big as his first "A Rose and a Baby Ruth...