Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boutique named Hung on You, favors garish antique clothes. For her wedding in a Roman Catholic church (Harlech's children were raised in his wife's religion, but he is an Anglican), which she planned without informing her parents until the day ahead, she chose a mid-calf Victorian model. Julian, 27, heir to the title, hires himself out as a male model. "My hands are my specialty," he explains. "Being long and delicate, they're useful for cigarette ads." Victoria, 21, lives with her grandmother, and the two youngest, 16-year-old Alice and 14-year...
Died. Craig Wood, 66, winner of both the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournaments in 1941; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach, Fla. Called "the Blond Bomber" for his tremendous drives, Wood, who turned pro in the mid-'20s,' finished second, time after time, in the game's biggest tournaments. In 1941, he finally made it, defeating Byron Nelson for the Masters title; two months later, he beat Denny Shute to win the Open, a feat that earned him a place in golf's Hall of Fame...
...return for relatively little work, was something of a scandal. Apparently the graduate division catered chiefly to public school teachers looking for an easy way to get the higher salaries that come to teachers with Ph.D's. Under a new dean, the graduate division was closed up in the mid-60's, but the school's reputation increased only slightly. Calvin Coolidge College is still completely unaccredited, it has only three full-time faculty members for its one hundred students and operates out of an old weary Beacon Hill House...
...Daniel Webster used to say, There-Are-Those-Who-Love-It. CCC is actually the undergraduate division of its next-door neighbor, the Portia Law School. Portia is an interesting place. It was founded in 1908 to provide, as you may have guessed, legal education for women. In the mid-30's the school trustees decided to admit male students and to open an undergraduate division. And so was born Calvin Coolidge College. Each institution was more or less autonomous, though the Trustees were obviously more interested in the fate of the Law School than in that of the College...
...team championships on Saturday, the Crimson was running a poor fifth during the morning rounds. Wynne, LoPucki, and Keefe were all shooting in the 80's: but in the afternoon, a heavy drizzle cut into the leaders' scores while Harvard charged back into contention with steady mid-70's play...