Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Goheen, president of Princeton University, asks Vassar to consider merging with Princeton instead of Yale. "Gosh, I'm flabbergasted--I just don't know what to say," answers Alan Simpson, President of Vassar. Attorney Mark Lane dies of hoof-in-mouth disease. His last words: "...Patrick Nugent ... Texas School Book Depository...
Magic Ingredient. Kilgour, French & Stanbury, whose clients include Novelist Patrick Dennis, David Merrick and CBS Chairman William Paley, thought nothing of fitting two vicuna overcoats for a 20th Century-Fox executive in the VIP lounge of the London Airport while he was between planes. Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor Erich Leinsdorf remembers that "whenever I played at Festival Hall, Stanbury would go there and study my motions so he could improve my full-dress suit...
Midnight Mass from the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington (ABC); services from Washington Square Methodist Church, Manhattan (CBS); midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan...
...wake of the trend setters, a wave of tourists is now heading for the island resorts. Long Island Banker Patrick Clifford and his wife Mary are typical. They have made four trips to Hawaii in the past four years, and not once left Oahu. But, says Mary, "I'm so disappointed at the way Waikiki's been built up." This year, they will see all three of the major outer islands...
...great deal of ethnic feeling is still enshrined in political rituals. In New York City, for instance, there are the infuriating, hopelessly provincial national parades (on St. Patrick's Day, Columbus Day, etc.), which paralyze Manhattan to very little purpose. Some Italians still get excited when somebody pushes Leif Ericson's claim to be the discoverer of America, and John Gronouski, now U.S. Ambassador to Poland, was jeered by Polish fraternal organizations in the Midwest when they discovered that he could not speak the language. (He took some quick lessons.) There are many lingering ethnic sensibilities on foreign...