Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short," wrote the New York Times Military Correspondent (and Annapolis-man) Hanson Baldwin, "some sections . . . believe that the carrier is no longer the queen of the seas and that the missile submarine is the future capital ship of the world's fleets." Baldwin added a sailor's salty appraisal that "the carrier is still useful but less so than in the past...
...week at the end of each summer when the active Alumni Association presents its annual Carnival. As soon as textbooks are distributed for the year, it is time for football Homecoming Week. Beginning with a parade and bonfire, the celebration winds up with the crowning of the homecoming queen and her court--invariably members of Sub-Deb or Jinx...
More royalty is chosen later in the year at the kings-and-queens dance. Not satisfied with selecting the boy and girl most-likely-to-succeed, the senior class also elects kings and queens of eyes, voice, hair, laugh, figure and physique, sophistication and dashing, personality, popularity, and a few others. There is even a queen of clothes--usually the girl with the largest wardrobe of cashmere sweaters...
There is little danger that further advances in the quality and variety of regular school courses will push bright students into an "academic shell."The queen of Horace Mann Homecoming graciously receives a bouquet of roses after her crowning. Her highness and the members of her court wear corsages to indicate they were elected by their schoolmates as the most popular and attractive senior girls. Coronation ceremonies occur at half-time at the season's biggest football game. Like Harvard, Horace Mann rarely wins a football game and rarely cares...
Died. Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, Baron Webb-Johnson, 77, onetime (1941-49) president of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, longtime (1936-53) personal surgeon to the late Queen Mary; in London. When the stricken Rudyard Kipling was rushed to the Middlesex Hospital in early 1936, Webb-Johnson operated for a perforated ulcer, but was unable to save the patient...