Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never hear of him again. His editorial on Vice President Nixon in your Sept. 3 issue is about the most crude and pointless piece of writing it has been my misfortune to read. Mr. Kempton is frantically groping to find a point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive and insulting to every decent-minded American, whether he be Democrat or Republican...
...courtly old man, swaddled in topcoat and business suit against the late summer chill, walked into Boisvert's Barbershop on Cottage Street in the resort town of Bar Harbor, Me., trailed by his chauffeur. He had not phoned ahead for an appointment; nor had he, like many of the wealthy summer residents of Mount Desert* Island, sent the chauffeur down after working hours to bring one of the barbers back to his mansion. "Mr. Rockefeller," Barber Jim Corbett likes to tell his friends "just comes on in and takes his chances...
...Anthony flowed suavely on. "For this country, military action is always the last resort, and we shall go on working for a peaceful solution so long as there is any prospect of achieving one. But the government are not prepared to embark on a policy of abject appeasement . . . The government must be free to take whatever steps are open to them to restore the situation...
John Wesley took "the world as my parish.'' Last week some 2,000 delegates from that parish, representing 18 million Methodists in 44 countries, wound up a meeting that would have pleased Wesley. At Lake Junaluska, N.C., a Methodist resort, the delegates met for twelve days in unsegregated harmony. In hotels and restaurants Methodists from Asia and Africa, as well as U.S. Negroes, were welcomed alongside whites, including U.S. Southerners. The most emphatic influence at the ninth Methodist World Conference was exerted by the British. As new president of the World Methodist Council the conference elected...
Bongo Bongo. Dressed sometimes in a business suit, sometimes in a gay sports shirt and slacks, Henry Kaiser charges all over his 18-acre resort to make decisions and supervise projects personally. Blue prints in hand, he pursues carpenters up scaffolds, sets deadlines for each project and sees to it that they are met. He even participates in floorshow rehearsals, is not above taking a turn at the bongo drums...