Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity crew goes up the Charles Saturday at 6 p.m. Princeton, BU, MIT, and Dartmouth along for the ride, hopefully. The Harvard-Wellesley bike race gets rolling from outside Soldier's Field, Saturday afternoon...
...April 19, the swan boats migrate out of winter storage in a warehouse down to the Boston Public Gardens opposite the Common. At this time, and during the rest of the summer, the city's harried mothers bring their offspring over to the garden pond for a ride, a look at the ducks and swans, and a chance to throw peanuts at the pigeons...
...surprised at the famous people who ride these boats--show business stars, Red Sox players. Richard Byrd--the Admiral, you know--after he had come back from sailing all around the Antartic and the South Pole, what did he do? He rode the boats with his grand daughter every Sunday. Shirley Temple too, when she was a little girl. We don't keep a guest book or anything like that, but there have been quite a few big names...
...along slowly, the ducks dabbled for peanuts, pigeons fluttered and landed on our brass rail, and grackles cawed and clucked on the ponds little island. On the boat itself, two children lost their pinwheels and a third hit a nearby pigeon's flank with a well-aimed peanut. The ride was as the skipper had said, though, smooth, gliding, and graceful--just like a swan...
...Groove. Miller sometimes spots hit records even before they are made. Last year when Cinemactor Tab Hunter visited Chicago, Hunter went for a ride in Miller's 45-ft. cabin cruiser, Disk Jockey. "I wanted to do something for the kid," recalls Miller, "so I told him to make 'a record." "I can't sing," said Hunter. "I don't care," Miller assured him. "You can sneeze and it'll sell." When they got ashore, Miller called Dot Records and set up a recording contract for the actor. Hunter cut a disk called Young Love...