Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book in the libraries." She thinks that the paperback boom also boosts library circulation: "The more a student reads, the more he wants to read, the more he buys, and the more he borrows." For more and more U.S. youngsters, says Agnes Krarup, head of the schools department of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library, "to be well read has suddenly become the 'thing that is done...
NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAM: Pittsburgh (by 3 games) PITCHER: Law, Pittsburgh (11-4) BATTER: Mays,San Francisco;Larker...
Water Wings, Anyone? In Pittsburgh, the county park commission hired a lifeguard named Ronald Drown...
...Hyannisport neighbors, mostly Pittsburgh millionaires, sniffed at the Kennedys as "moneyed Boston Irish," and the clan drew closer together. In the community sailing races on Nantucket Sound the Kennedy boys were savage contestants, and an annual softball game between the "Barefoot Boys" (the Kennedys and allies) and the "Pansies" (the neighbors) was fought out each Labor Day on the Kennedy lawn. Jack usually pitched, Bobby and Teddy sometimes pouted when their homemade rules were not observed, and celebrated house guests were occasionally dragooned into the game. Once the late Senator Joe McCarthy made four errors playing shortstop for the Barefoot...
While colleges across the U.S. took their well-deserved ease last week, one school was almost as busy as during the normal school year. At the University of Pittsburgh, classrooms and dorms were filled; the student-union lounge and the cafeteria clattered with noise. The Pitt Players were rehearsing The Solid Gold Cadillac, and such visitors as Poet Stanley Kunitz and Dancer Ruth St. Denis were coming in to lecture. Reason for the activity: Pitt is experimenting with a novel "trimester" system that keeps the campus humming eleven months of the year. As the number of students seeking a college...