Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single life raft, built to hold 25 people, floated within reach (four others sank with the severed wing or drifted away), and onto it clambered 51 men and women. As water sloshed into the bobbing raft, Navigator Samuel Nicholson screamed, "Bail, for God's sake!" One man tried to scoop the water out with his wallet. For the most part, discipline was excellent, but there were exceptions. One survivor tried to pull a woman aboard, but "men poured over us. She kept crying, 'Please let me on the raft,' but men kept coming. I couldn...
...distinguished evenings of the week were provided by the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Boston Symphony, which not only played superbly under its new conductor, Erich Leinsdorf (see below), but included in its program what proved to be the week's most distinguished première-Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto, with John Browning as soloist, Composers Copland, Walter Piston and William Bergsma had also provided opening-week pieces, all of them competent occasional music (Copland's brassy, sinewy Connotations for Orchestra, Piston's stately Lincoln Center Festival Overture, Bergsma's festive...
...Union also elected a new slate officers for the fall term. They are President, Hendrik Hortsberg '65; vicepresident, Thomas A. Timberg '64, vice-president: secretary Peter W. Rodman and treasurer, Samuel R.l Frieding...
Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, edited by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett. This latest-to-be-edited volume of Boswell's journal cannot deepen the portrait of Johnson, but Bozzy's entertaining chatter continues delightfully as he describes the doctor, a great bag of prejudice and conversation set atop a tiny horse, clambering over the wet Scottish islands...
...much as anyone could be, the choice of the Democratic Party's regular organization, an uneasy alliance of local bosses split by national origin (Irish v. Italian) and geography (greater Boston v. western Massachusetts). Eddie was also the favorite of Massachusetts' intellectual community. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (a visiting professor at Harvard), and Harvard Law Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe joined to declare that "Teddy has been aptly described as a 'fledgling in everything except ambition...