Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rescue by Radiation" [April 28]: Our body defenses against infection would be sad indeed if we had only "5,000 white cells per cubic centimeter." Let us give our bodies a fighting chance with 5,000-10,000 leukocytes per cubic millimeter of whole blood...
Probably the only readers who get past the activities coverage to the feature articles are reviewers and Yearbook editors. This seems somewhat sad, since a great deal of effort and space was spent on these sections. The opening feature on "The House System and Harvard College" is a competently written, thoroughly researched study. The next one, on ROTC, is dull, confusing, and rather unimportant. "The Creative Artist" is well written and interesting, although some personal details and quotations from the artists would have helped considerably. The scholarships article is clearly written, but lists nary a dollars and cents figure...
Durable Boulevardier Maurice Chevalier, 69, confessed that he did not understand the younger generation, frowned especially at sad-eyed, bedroomy Novelist Franchise Sagan: "I do not follow that kind of mentality. I cannot understand how it is to be young, in good health, to have talent and money, to be attractive-if with these five blessings you are unhappy, then what do you want? The only thing left is to commit suicide...
...still up front, where Jewel's Reward was faltering but Tim Tarn was steadily closing on Lincoln Road. At the wire, it was Tim Tarn by half a length. Lincoln Road, hanging on gamely, was second. Noureddin, a fast-finishing long shot, was third. Silky was a sad twelfth. The red comet from California had fizzled out in the gaudy glare of the Derby. The hangover from the carnival still belonged to a brief, bright legend; the real horse race and the regal $118,000 went to the best horse...
...trip back to what used to be Braves Field is a rather sad experience for anyone with a baseball memory of more than five years. The stands are now green and bare, there is a rusty wire fence where the left-field wall once stood, and the grass grows fitfully around the outfield...