Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well is 23-year-old Rookie Baylor handling the ball and himself this season in the National Basketball Association that his fellow pros already regard him with ungrudging admiration. "He has that ability to hang there in mid-air for a few seconds before making up his mind to shoot or pass," says St. Louis' Cliff Hagan. Rival coaches often pay Baylor the compliment of assigning him a taller man, try to block up the middle on his drives. Baylor has quickly adapted himself to the rough tactics of the pros. Says St. Louis Coach Ed Macauley: "When...
...Nova Scotia farmer from the herring-heavy shores of Pugwash (pop. 950), Eaton first thought of entering the ministry but soon changed his mind after a visit to his uncle, who was pastor of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. One of the parishioners was Standard Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who gave the 17-year-old youth a job as a clerk on his estate outside Cleveland...
...nostalgia as the AAA, TVA, NRA and all the other alphabetical nostrums pass in review. As Schlesinger moves from agency to agency, he frequently comes through with accurate and telling thumbnail sketches of the crowd around F.D.R. There is Henry Wallace ("At a certain point, his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier . . . into rhapsodic mysticism"), who could speculate whether the reverse side of the U.S. Great Seal, with its all-seeing eye. did not prefigure the Second Coming of the Messiah. There is erratic, hard-drinking General Hugh Johnson, who. when he was finally forced to resign...
...student. The idea of the Master's appointment bears out this conception of the Student Council as basically a group of "expert advisers." These men were not chosen for their political acumen, but rather for their good judgment. The new Council would do well to keep this focus in mind...
...indeed unusual when a movie arrives in this vicinity which has sufficient merit to pull veteran Western fans away from their early evening television vigils. Especially during reading and exam periods when the academic world weighs heavy on the undergraduate mind and the desire for Escape becomes greater each day, the Western assumes an even larger role in the Harvard community...