Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Call Was Necessary. Oveta Hobby's life moves with the precision of a metronome. At home in Houston, she issues household instructions to her domestic staff at weekly meetings. A fitful sleeper, she keeps a notebook on her bedside table, makes frequent midnight notes on her "planned life." Her office appointments are lined up on a conveyor-belt schedule. Her double-handled calfskin bag, which she carries everywhere, is a special efficiency container which she designed for her business papers, her purse, and a Book of Common Prayer...
...Course it is. I gotta talk to Oveta, don't I?") Last month, when Will celebrated his 75th birthday, Oveta left her Washington desk in time to catch a 10 a.m. plane. She arrived in Houston at 2 p.m., presided over an enormous birthday party, turned in at midnight, turned out again at 3 a.m., and flew back to Washington in time for a 9:30 a.m. Cabinet meeting...
...owned Cadillac pulls up in front of the Connecticut Avenue apartment where she lives (along with such other tenants as the Alben Barkleys, Senator Eugene Millikin, Justice Tom Clark). Then, after a shower and a light supper, there is homework. Most nights, Oveta Hobby is hard at work until midnight...
...typewriters early). Another, and the commonest source of distress to a sympathetic critic: the struggling but limited performer who has laid out a hard-earned $1,000-$1,500 for a Manhattan recital, hoping for rave reviews which will lead to contracts and a steady career. An Hour Till Midnight. Critic Berger has about an hour in which to set his opinions on paper before his midnight deadline, flows them out quickly. As a composer, Berger takes more time, usually spends several painstaking months on a quarter hour of music (Ideas took about 90 days). Even after it is technically...
Woody Herman and his orchestra will be the feature band for this year's Class Week "Senior Spread." Approximately $10,000 will be spent for the highlights of the week, Ralph N. Wharton '53, secretary of the Class Day Committee, announced yesterday. The "Senior Spread," annual formal dance and midnight supper, will be held in the Eliot House courtyard on June...