Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well. The local home guard captain feels it his duty to protect the morals of the people and a typically severe Calvinist mother tries to prolong her son's abstention. Happily, neither can alter human nature. Basil Radford as the self-important captain and Jean Cadel as the silver-cord keeping mother, are quite adequate, as is Joan Greenwood, who provides the film's sexual interest...
...Pasture across the Charles River, a group of Harvard Alumni from the Boston area made the smalle beginninges of the Harvard Club of Boston. This was more than forty years after New York alumni, over 200 miles from the home college, had first assembled to strengthen the silver cord to their Alma Mater...
...Ella Fondren has given far more than money to the causes she serves. Every Christmas she takes a load of silver dollars to the orphans of Waco, each week observes a "hospital day" when she tours the Methodist Hospital to find out if anything is needed. She has visited medical centers all over the U.S. to see if her own hospitals have the latest equipment, is always on hand for the annual Fondren Lectures at S.M.U. Says the Rev. Dawson Bryan, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Houston: "She attends more committee meetings than anyone...
...Silver for Orphans. Though no one knows exactly how much she has given (best estimate: more than $20 million), her bounty has been spread widely and well. Fondren money built the $500,000 S.M.U. library, furnished half the cost of the $2,000,000 library at Rice Institute. It helped build Houston's Methodist Hospital, and it also helps support Episcopal St. Luke's. It has done everything from building a gymnasium for the students of Houston's Kinkaid School to founding the Methodist Home (for orphans) in Waco and giving Houston's Texas Medical Center...
...Tall, silver-haired, with electric-blue eyes, d'Entreves finds relaxation in rambling through the Northern Italian Alps near his birthplace. Aside from climbing, he is an avid collector of classical records and has a deep interest in and love of music. Although he has not taught political theory for several years, d'Entreves feels totally at home in the subject, and is glad to return...