Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bishop Bayne was only one of thousands of Seattleites talking and thinking about Teamster Boss Dave Beck last week, as the nation's 20th largest city examined its conscience for having let Beck, a longtime resident, use Seattle as his oyster. To be sure, Beck used a bludgeon to crack open his oyster; it was the bludgeon of Teamster power. Equally true, Seattle at first accepted Beck with the greatest reluctance and mostly because it seemed a choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went...
Harold Pratt '59, of Winthrop House and Oyster Bay, N.Y., was chosen assistant varsity manager, while William Garrison '59, of Dunster House and Tacoma, Wash., will manage the J.V.'s. John Reidy '60, of Massachusetts Hall and Brookline, won the freshman managerial competition...
...Publisher Loeb is made of more carefully tempered stuff than Wisconsin's McCarthy; few New Hampshiremen expect a censure resolution (a questionable step in this instance) to crimp his rambunctious style. A Neanderthal Republican whose father was Teddy Roosevelt's secretary, Oyster Bay-born Bill Loeb, 51, insists that, the G.O.P. is riddled with Communists, in 1952 was one of the few of any party to endorse the late Bertie McCormick's proposal for a simon-pure "American Party." Spry, restless Loeb brags that the Union Leader will print any letter it receives, pointed out a recent...
...begins when dignified Joe Raposo strolls to the piano and then bounces, rumbles, and tickles his way through some very pleasant music. As soon as the curtain rises, however, the boys take over, their ebulient spirit chanelled into a properly farcical plot. Mrs. Leroy St. Clair of the 1920 Oyster Bay Set (those were the days and the people) is making the final arrangements for her blonde, blue-eyed, and fashionably flat daughter's coming out party. Daughter is none too happy about it all as she has a poor but noble lover. Widow St. Clair is, herself, being courted...
...works-18 novels, 20 collections of short stories, seven nonfiction books, three plays and a mass of journalism-were to deal with simpler people in a simpler world. He followed his own star-snarled destiny where it led, left his stepfather's shabby Oakland home to become an oyster pirate and precocious boozer in his teens. He drank enough redeye before he was 20 to make Lost Weekend seem like a short beer...