Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most of the other clubs, the Harvard Club of New York is not merely an alumni club. While it does fulfill the normal functions of an alumni organization, and has recently extended its work in this area, it serves as a social focus for Harvard men who live in and visit the City. This is mainly because it has its own large clubhouse...
...when Jack Peurifoy was U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, he and his two sons were in an automobile accident. Jack Peurifoy and his younger son, a normal, healthy lad then 9 years old, were killed. But Clinton, 14, the spastic, survived-"by one of those forever puzzling strokes of fate," as Admiral Brown put it. Brown also reported that before he died Jack Peurifoy had come "to really believe that God, in His way which passes all human understanding, was preparing a favorite spot for a little boy who must spend his earthly days as a hopeless cripple...
...months the tightening steel shortage has posed an increasingly tough problem for the U.S. Government. Should it allocate steel or let industry scramble for supplies under the normal peacetime rules of a free economy? Last week the Administration made its decision. In Washington Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming flatly refused to set up a priority system to ease steel shortages in the booming U.S. shipbuilding industry on the ground that it would amount to Government interference in a civilian-market shortage. That meant that shipbuilders, who are getting only 40% of the steel they need, will have to fight...
...independents contended that the commission's decision would have no adverse effect at all on the shipment of oil to Europe. The normal U.S. stock, they pointed out, is around 265 million bbls., while current stocks amount to 273.7 million bbls. The talk of a shortage, they charged, was nothing but propaganda concocted out of the foreign crisis by the big producers and shippers to keep domestic prices down...
...down." In delirium, the child cried out in a singsong voice: "The call is coming, the call is coming." It was prophetic. The convulsions began, and the bright spirit slowly burned away. Nothing was spared, for there even came a day when Gabby's blood count suddenly became normal; her liver improved; the swelling in her abdomen began shrinking. But it was a false dawn and, watching the child sleep with her fine bones showing through the silvery pallor of her face, the mother thought: "I could sometimes see the unfamiliar but strangely beautiful mask of death already being...