Word: mountings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark bay colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star Federal Hill all down the backstretch, worried only when his mount began to loaf after leading the pack past the turn for home. When Iron Liege made his move, Eddie took to the whip, and Bold Ruler went back to work. He was still pulling away when he won by two lengths. Behind him, outclassed Iron Liege had all he could...
...owners of Mount Auburn Street's two coffee house regard each other's establishments with polite airs of reciprocal contempt. Harl Cook of Tulla's commenting on "the place 'down the street," says, "Oh I wouldn't call them competition. They get a different crowd." George Wilson '59, part owner of the Capriccio, suspects Tulla's purchases their coffee from Cahaly...
...multi-million dollar development of the entire block bounded by Massachusetts Avenue and Mount Auburn, Dunster, and Holyoke Streets is on University planning tables, Edward J. Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice President, disclosed yesterday...
...Harvard. The turn of the century saw Harvard wrestling with a two-fold problem: High school graduates and scholarship students lived in the economical Yard while the rich moved off to "Gold Coast" quarters on Massachusetts Avenue, and final and "waiting" clubs were forming, with clubhouses erected on Mount Auburn Street. Harvard College, both socially and physically, was splitting into two camps...
Paradoxical Moral. Author Ham, 38, seems to have followed his own life closely in the book-he too is the son of an educator (his father is president of Mount Holyoke College), he too bounced in and out of Hotchkiss, Yale and the R.C.A.F. As a result, much of the book has the charm, but sometimes also the limited private meaning, of reminiscences over the third martini between balding alumni. But. apart from being on the whole immensely amusing, the book carries a paradoxical and completely unpreachy moral: the longest way around is the shortest way home. Those...