Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lynch proposal was effectively voted down and sent to the Committee on Finance by a procedural maneuver. Councillors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Edward A. Crane '35, Cornelia B. Wheeler, Charles B. Watson, and Pearl K. Wise all voted against suspension of the rules, a move that would have allowed Council consideration of the motion...
...Cole, good mechanic, soon got a reputation as a Mr. Fix-It. Through the '30s Cole made giant strides in reducing engine noise and solving problems of engine cooling. The U.S. Army, whose tanks were regularly breaking down from engine over heating, grew attentive. Just before Pearl Harbor, Cole got his toughest job: developing a new rear engine for the Army's M-5 light tank in 90 days. Cole beat the deadline, and during the war Cadillac built 12,500 M-55. After the war, Cadillac assigned Cole to apply his tank know-how to building...
...face, said one reporter, looked "like a death mask of Gary Cooper." The plot line spun itself out as the story of Adam Troy, Korean war veteran, who dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki and Captain Troy are also headed for a hurricane, an engine-room fire, a rock fight on Pitcairn Island, a death struggle with a gigantic eel-if the show lasts long enough...
Wine Is the Cup. If virtue was always rewarded, the conventional virtues are not always practiced. Strong wine rather than tea is the cup that cheers, and one hero downs 30 pints in one night. In The Pearl-Sewn Shirt, a lovely young wife turns to a wine-guzzling old woman for companionship in her husband's absence. The old woman returns her friendship by getting her drunk and pushing her into adultery with a wealthy young merchant. This is one tale that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces...
...endorsed candidates for City Council include Edward A. Crane '35, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Bernard Goldberg, Richard E. McLaughlin, Manuel Rogers, Edward T. Sullivan, Ralph W. Ward, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler and Mrs. Pearl K. Wise. The candidates for School Committee are William S. Barnes, Assistant Dean of the Law School, Hester E. Byrnes, Joseph G. Dever, Mrs. Catherine T. Ogden, Gustave M. Solomons and Charles M. Sullivan...