Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lashed to a creamy froth, the skies tumbled a blanket of white on the Eastern Seaboard the day after Christmas. At first it was mistaken for leftover egg-nog, but it was not long before the awful truth dawned upon the quaint villagers of New York and Boston. It was snow. The mold had finally been broken. The awful implications were soon abroad, and within a day the sign of the flying red horse had changed to an off-white. But the effects were even broader; James B. Conant switched to Calvert because he liked its flaky texture; there...
Before the war, IC4A meets generally rotated between the Stadium and Penn's Franklin Field. The IC4A embraces colleges on the Eastern Seaboard as far south as the Carolinas and westward to Pittsburgh, although there are some non-sectional members. Strongest of these are Michigan State and the University of Southern California, which hasn't come east for the past few meets...
Geographically, Virginia, northernmost of the Confederate states, lies about the middle of the Atlantic seaboard. But its traditions, the record of the numerous and illustrious leaders it has given the nation, and its reverence for the gentility, charm, and grace that characterize life below the Mason-Dixon line, make Virginia one of the most "southern" of all states. Its attitude toward racial segregation stems almost inevitably from the brutality and humiliation of the Reconstruction era, an era whose traces have not even yet entirely passed away...
...heat was the news most of the week almost everywhere in the U.S. It was hot in the South, hot in the Southwest, hot in the Midwest, hot and humid as a Finnish bathhouse along the Eastern Seaboard...
...down the Eastern Seaboard, such sure-fire wandering stars as Horton promise to dominate this summer's season even more than seasons past. Summer stock as an acting and playwrighting laboratory has almost disappeared; at an average $2 a seat, there is too much money to be made with proven plays and proven stars. Money is also made from stage-struck youngsters who pay up to $500 a season for the privilege of collecting tickets, lugging scenery about and memorizing one-line roles. Twenty-five new theaters and some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors...