Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife, who died in 1944. To Lou Henry Hoover he has dedicated one room of the Hoover Library at Stanford University, and there he has assembled a small collection of the things which she once treasured: lace presented to her when he was working on Belgian relief, old Spanish silver, blue and white porcelain. In the dusty antique shops under Manhattan's Third Avenue El, Hoover is a familiar figure today, hunting around for more blue and white porcelain. He cherishes recollections of his Iowa boyhood which suggest some un-Hooverish pictures. "There was Cook's Hill...
...preview of Mike's film draws laughs in the wrong places and he knows he has produced a flop, and probably his last picture. "It's a dying town . . . the last days of Pompeii . . . The Cadillacs are already beginning to flee the doomed city, carrying the family silver and Picassos...
...thinks the Class of '27 is one of the youngest he's seen. The silver on some heads doesn't fool him. "Some of you young bucks, my boy who is a junior here now, may think we're old fogies, but the only change I can see in my classmates is that some of them look older. But they don't act older. I can recognize most of them right away...
Almost 500 sweating, singing, backslapping '27 grads, streaks of silver in their hair, spring in their step, and wives and families in their train will officially begin their 25th reunion weeklong spree at the University today...
...very happy to note in TIME, May 26, that you have finally served General MacArthur his just desserts on a silver platter-a bowl of sour grapes...