Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four "30-Minute Club" members will compete for the magnum-size, sterling silver Darcey Cup to climax Blake Dennison's annual singles regatta on the Charles this afternoon. The cup was given in memory of Thomas J. Darcey, Jr. '37, by his father. Darcey, who won the American Henley Double Sculls Championship in 1938, lost his life in Lake Erie eight years...
...London, a weekend that blossomed with flags and bunting reached full flower as George VI and Queen Elizabeth rode in state from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's and back. The occasion: their silver wedding anniversary. The King and Queen (and Princess Margaret) rode in a gold and crimson coach behind the household cavalry and full-dress Guards, helmeted and plumed, on jet horses. After them came a coach with Elizabeth and Philip. Salutes were fired; cheering crowds jam-packed the sidewalks...
...entertaining. The story of the airplane builder who runs for president and discovers that "he must approve everything except sin" has been filmed true to script. Spencer Tracy blusters sufficiently for a man who jumps into politics over his neck and gradually discovers that handing out golden platitudes on silver platters is a tricky business. He winces effectively as his managers tell him that people are nice but they don't count--only votes matter and they come from Machines. Tracy comes of age after his initial political junket across the country; he decides for the people and throws...
...Victor Johnston, a shrewd, silver-haired journeyman politician who last week took over the operation of Stassen's Washington office. He managed the Wisconsin campaign, kept the Stassen memory green in 1944 while Stassen was in the Navy...
...Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, onetime leader of the Silver Shirts, hoped to spring himself out of the pen on a writ of habeas corpus. Six years after his conviction for sedition, Pelley argued that the only thing proved against him was that he was against Communism...