Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight, her mother and father were divorced. Last week father Jesse Crowell, 64, a retired streetcar conductor in Gaylord, Mich., was amazed and "awful sorry" to learn that Ann Woodward was the daughter he had not seen or heard of in 23 years. "I taught her how to sit on a horse, and she later became a good rider," he recalled proudly. "I'm sure that was a great help to her when she began to associate with high society." For years he had been under the impression that his daughter was Actress Eve Arden (Our Miss Brooks...
...prizes. At Yale he was again just average as a student. It was at Yale that Averell Harriman's record first showed the intensity of concentration that has never left him. He became a bridge addict. After a bridge session, Averell would return to his room and sit for hours doing postmortems. He learned to memorize the hands and plays, and then would reconstruct them. His daughter Kathleen (Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer Jr.), recalling his stories of this exercise in memory training, has said: "It's one of the best things he got out of Yale...
France's 7,000 jailers were proud of their posts but dissatisfied with their rewards. The question was: How does a jailer go on strike? Last week, in 120 prisons throughout the country, they found a way. They went on a sit-in strike...
...spokesmen deplored the cutback in afternoon hours. In Winthrop House, a poll showed 92 upperclassmen disapproving of the new hours as against 35 who were satisfied. It was Radcliffe, though, that objected most strenuously to the 4 p.m. starting time in the Houses. "There is no other place to sit quietly in the afternoon," complained one girl. "People used this opportunity to study together," said another. Even a Housemother got into the act--Mrs. Allan S. Locke of Briggs Hall confessing that she couldn't understand the Faculty's reason for eliminating the afternoon hours: "Before lunch...
...Boston wanted to exhibit. The lawyers for Times Flms used some arguments similar to those Brewer had employed. But they also tried to attack the blue laws as an infringement upon freedom of religion. Chief Justice Qua ruled that such arguments were irrelevant and ordered the counsel to sit down. The final decision of The Times case, however, depended on the Brattle ruling, stating that this precedent was "enough to dispose of this matter for all practical purposes...