Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Newton, 50, top-ranking British-born screen actor (Treasure Island, The Beachcomber) and TV player (Long John Silver); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...
...removal of remembered childhood. "(He) mused with half-closed eyes which went in and out of focus with sleepiness, upon the slow twinkling of the millions of heavy leaves on the trees and the slow flashing of the blades of the corn...and everything hung dreaming in a shining silver haze..." In his treatment of the boy's father's Agee shows a sure power of characterization, even in these few pages, which is nearly equal to his descriptive skill. The only possible complaint is that more space was not devoted to these excerpts...
...annual Christmas dinner is another House tradition. Perkins lighted Lowell's Yule log this year and starred in a strictly for-men-only play. Last Saturday the House held a formal dinner-dance in honor of its silver anniversary. A new Yule log may be sitting in the fireplace waiting for another Christmas, but life in Lowell goes along unperturbed...
Memorial Church will hold Communion today, Maundy Thursday, renewing a tradition begun in 1814. Four silver chalices, purchased through a special Corporation vote in that year will be used in administering the Sacrament...
...John Lathrop, Secretary to the Board of Overseers), and Professor Hedge (Levi Hedge, College Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity) be authorized to procure a service of plate suitable for the Communion at the expense of the Corporation." New silver plate and glass cups were recently purchased for use in addition to the historic vessels...