Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reminders of the Past. Roy Roberts left the Star building before midnight, piled himself into the front seat of his 1946 Pontiac. Harvey Anderson, his Negro chauffeur-handyman, was waiting to pick him up. Roberts, who has a nickname for everybody, calls Anderson "the Senator" because he is a precinct-worker for the good deeders...
Talk of the Town. Half a dozen latinos jumped to embrace Torres Bodet as he went back to his seat. That night he was the talk of every cocktail party in town...
Next day a burly constable took the seat next to Poindexter. Amid student applause, he marched down front and served a summons on the nonplussed professor. Admitted Prosser: "This seems to be in order." He handed Poindexter $5. Then, pointing to the summons, he asked: "Now, what do you want me to do with this?" Replied Poindexter: "Keep it. That is for another $5. Thank you for the gift of this...
...courtroom of canvas and plywood, incongruous amidst stained glass and granite pillars, within the 13th Century Great Hall of Winchester Castle. Most of the space in the public gallery was occupied by fashionably dressed women, many of whom appeared daily at 5:30 a.m. to make sure of a seat. The press made much of this welcome diversion from the European crisis...
When it comes to athletics, Adams takes a back seat, having experience a conspicuous lack of success in the past few years. But then this situation gives athletically conscious Yardlings the chance to get in on the ground floor of the projected revival. Perhaps 1948 will be the "next year" Adams House men have been "waiting till" for a long, long time...