Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio Chitchatter Sloan Simpson, estranged wife of Expatriate William O'Dwyer, onetime mayor of New York City and later U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, was back on her old Manhattan stamping grounds, showed up for a midnight movie première looking as if she were the town's First Lady all over again...
Each Christmas Eve the members of Jerusalem's diplomatic corps gather, gorgeous in cocked hats, plumes and silver swords, and retrace the starlit route of the Magi from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. They climax the occasion with midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity...
...finds TV to be all-consuming, even in his off-duty hours. Recently he gave away his own TV set, explaining tensely: "I'd just sit down to watch the 6 o'clock news and the next thing I knew, there I'd be watching the midnight movie...
...Walks at Midnight. Sitting as Chief Justice of the U.S. is a basic change in Earl Warren's life. A hearty, friendly man who likes people, Warren used to travel up and down the State of California, meeting people, handling dozens of administrative problems through a large staff. Suddenly, he was behind a desk in an office full of law books. Warren found that he liked the new opportunity for reflection and analysis. To offset the confining nature of his work, the Chief Justice often walks for two or three miles before going to bed about midnight...
...contrast with Princeton's Firestone Library should be a little embarrassing to local librarians. Princetonians can study undisturbed until 12:00 midnight every week night. And, though Lamont officials claim these extended hours would be disastrous financially, Princeton has found little extra expense. The Nassau equivalent of Desk Three is closed at 10 p.m. So that only the expense of a checker at the door adds to operating costs. These extra few dollars are well justified by the increased convenience to students. And while Lamont can point to the House libraries which are open until midnight, during the exam period...