Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest personalities of our time," said Laurence Sickman, director of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. "Frankly, we welcomed the opportunity." Detroit Institute of Arts Director Edgar P. Richardson was equally pleased, said, "Our aim is to give the people a chance to observe the pageant of arts in our time, and certainly this is part of that pageant...
...Pageant Unfolds. Into the north end of Westminster Hall the American lawyers thronged for the welcoming ceremonies, many bearing their light meters and cameras, a few doffing ten-gallon hats as they entered, most of them sharp-eyed, serious men, substantial in their communities, practical men who had not forgotten how to be stirred by a great occasion which ennobled their vocation with high purpose...
...conventioners will, they sat and chatted about last night's parties and this morning's hangovers. Then suddenly they fell quiet. From the south end of the hall, the legal pageant of Britain began to emerge and debouch onto the stone steps that formed a stage-judges of the High Court of Justice in ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered...
...This pageant of intense undergraduate activity has developed to clash with the older traditions of Harvard--the quiet that lingers in the Yard and the contemplative detachment of "Tory Row." And there is evidence that the leisurely quest for the constructive relaxation of extra-curricular activities has been transformed into an intense drive for the kind of competence that has always been held more characteristic of "the business world...
Schoolgirl Heinkel has been performing before audiences since she was three. In home-town St. Louis, where her father sells plumbing fixtures, a TV station manager spotted her playing Shirley Temple in a Christmas pageant, put her on a local kiddie show. She won modeling jobs, as well as roles in 13 St. Louis Municipal Opera productions. Chicago producers spotted her on a local TV show, were so impressed that they gave CBS brass in Manhattan a look at her over a closed-circuit broadcast. CBS whipped up a format, wooed Susan to Chicago's WBBM...