Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grade graduation play, he shouted at her from the stage: "I told you. Mom! I told you!" His formal education ceased at that level and, to his mother's dismay, he spent the next few years standing around on street corners, usually dressed in a grey suit, a pearl grey double-breasted vest, a yellow polka-dot tie, a polka-dot handkerchief, a polka-dot scarf, a chesterfield, a derby and spats-doing absolutely nothing...
Since that time, no President has stumped him, although all four of the Presidents Romagna has served have given him bad moments. On Pearl Harbor night, Roosevelt installed him in a bathroom adjoining the presidential bedroom to record, unbeknownst to the assembly, a secret Cabinet meeting from behind a 2-in. oaken door. Romagna recalls the experience as "ghastly." There was a phone in the bathroom, and assorted Cabinet members popped in to use it-forcing Romagna to hide behind another door. In 1948, on tour with Harry Truman. Romagna transcribed more than 300 of Truman's 536 campaign...
...more than a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ambassador Joseph Grew had warned from Tokyo that the Japanese might make "an all-out, do-or-die attempt . . . with dangerous and dramatic suddenness." When it came, the joint U.S. Army-Navy Hawaiian defense plan had been circulated as a model of strategic planning to all Navy district commanders-but was not in effect in Hawaii on Dec. 7. Ten full hours after Japan's virtually unopposed destruction of the U.S. Pacific fleet, the enemy found Douglas MacArthur's Far East air force neatly arrayed for extermination...
Sentry Abroad (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A news special that surveys the U.S. military establishment abroad, 20 years after Pearl Harbor...
...backed candidates re-elected to the City Council are Councilors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '28 (3159 votes Saturday) and Pearl K. Wise (2812 votes). Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 was easily returned to the Council on the first counting of ballots...