Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the wheel doors closed up, Felix was comfortable, though cramped. "It was nice to get out of the wind," he recalled later. But when Captain...
Personal Touch. Today, the Higgins Foundation boasts a permanent kitty of $20,000; every time it falls below, Higgins simply deposits another check. The foundation does not cover all expenses, but Higgins digs into his own pocket to see personally that "my students are dressed nice." Ferndale merchants have long since grown used to having a few of his students come around, armed with the familiar instruction: "Tell 'em I said to outfit you and charge it to Mr. Higgins." Last week George Higgins totted up his score, found that he had seen 75 boys & girls earn degrees...
...from ambulance work to extracting children's heads from Iron fences. One of the more grisly tasks is investigating suicides. According to Lieutenant Paul Touchette, his squad has never been able to save a Harvard man who had decided to become a late Harvard man. "At least it's nice to be able to say," remarks Touchette, an avid Harvard booster and member of the Band, "that Harvard men do a professional job, and never botch...
Cold Comfort. In Everett, Mass., Grocer Fred Bailey, locked in his freezer room by a pretty blonde customer and robbed of $60, remarked, after being rescued 20 minutes later: "She seemed to be such a very nice person...
Some, however, do recall him vaguely, and one knew him as his sister's beau. Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, who studied law with Stevenson, remembers him as "a nice fellow, one of the best in the Princeton group...