Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whirl in Manhattan, amiably submitted to interviews, posed for pictures, appeared on a few radio-TV shows free from a sponsor's taint, and took in the sights. Another compromising situation was averted in the cloud-banked Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Center when Bannister accepted a small silver cup, guaranteed to be worth no more than $32.90, from a Southern California amateur athletic group. It was a substitute for a $300 sterling silver bowl-the Roger Bannister Trophy-which he could have received only in defiance of British rules-part of an international amateur code-forbidding athletes to accept...
...prize of $200 and a silver medal will go to Walter J. Kaiser '54 for a group of poems entitled "The Usual Subjects...
...Nancy Cissel, 12, of Silver Spring, Md., spotted a boy in the path of an onrushing car, dashed into the street and pulled him to safety. Nancy was obviously just in time: as the car sped by, it tore her sleeve...
...once a week for dinner in its quarters in Eliot House M-Entry. There, in a panelled dining room about a large horseshoe table, the twenty-four Junior Fellows, nine Senior Fellows, and guests sit down to a very full, informal meal by candle light--the candles set in silver sticks engraved with the names of the members...
...Racer Bill Spear, in a 4.5-liter Ferrari, won the President's Cup race at a roaring 81.85-m.p.h. average. Some 60,-ooo turned out for the biggest series of sports-car races (178 entries) ever held in the U.S. Winner Spear's reward: a two-foot silver bowl, presented to him in person by President Eisenhower. ¶In St. Louis, the Cardinals' Rightfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial had himself quite a day at the plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping home runs, a major-league record...