Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keel v. Hull. Last week, at Marblehead, Mass., a fourth U.S. candidate slid down the ways on the midnight tide. In what was probably the biggest crowd ever to attend a shore-bound yachting function, 1,200 sailors packed into M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium to hear about Nefertiti, a radical 12-meter yacht designed by self-taught Naval Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal...
...brisk sounds of combo jazz. Moon River is sobbed by a plaintive harmonica, repeated by strings, hummed and then sung by the chorus, finally resolved with the harmonica again. Says Mancini: "It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote the song in half an hour...
...slumside Pittsburgh with superbly detailed tessellations of anecdote. An itchy slut of a woman up on the third floor sings Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with her soldier friends and kicks them all out just before her husband gets back from his war-worker job at midnight. Mrs. Bagley from the other side of the garbage court passes the word that Hitler was "a fairy-honest. I hear he's a morphydike." Everyone speculates about...
...Malvolio, Thom Babe exhibits control far beyond refusing "cakes and ale." Dour and stern at the start, he convinces us that he has heard no bells at midnight; and so, when he breaks into smiles and puts on yellow stockings, the joke succeeds superbly...
Masters decided at their meeting Wednesday to keep Junior common rooms open to women until 12 midnight on Fridays, but refused to extend parietal hours beyond 8 p.m. on Saturdays when there are home football games...