Word: statler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell, a university of great physical beauty, squats on a hill-above Cayuga's waters--in the Finger lakes region of New York State. It has a first class arts and sciences school but it takes much more pride in schools such as the three million dollar Statler School of Hotel Management, and its Schools of Industrial Relations, Home Economics, and Nutrition. The University has a Medical School in New York City...
...tour began at the Hotel Statler and led through Central Square. Lamont Library was the first Harvard building to appear. "That's a club building," the driver commented, "and the one past it is the College Library. The one with all the ivy." Turning right at the Square, he drove up toward Cambridge Common and pointed to a bronze statue labelled Sumner. "Now look past that information booth," he said. "That statue is John Harvard, founder of Harvard University." The sightseers murmured interestedly...
Back at the Statler, the driver quipped, "That's the end of the tour, folks. I hope you're satisfied." Most of the rubbernecks looked very, very satisfied. As the lady from Detroit put it--she had also spent the morning on the Historie and Modern Boston tour--"We go on these trips in every city. They're so educational...
...right. The White House switchboard was swamped with calls from angry ex-marines, their families and friends. At the Hotel Statler, the Marine Corps League happened to be holding a convention. The outraged feelings of the Marine veterans reached a steamy climax in a 20-minute speech delivered by Sheriff William Harris, of Chatham County, Ga., who referred to "that creature in the White House," and blamed as the source of the Marines' troubles the man who had tried to cut Marine strength to the bone -Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, that "incompetent damn fool...
Just to make sure that there was no lingering misunderstanding, he appeared next day, hat in hand, at the Statler. Warned in time's nick that the President was coming, League Commandant Clay Nixon, of Seattle, had ordered: "No wisecracks will be tolerated . . . You will behave like marines." The convention's official bugler, 70-year-old Herbert Baldwin, tried to blow Hail to the Chief, but his upper dentures slipped out, so he just blew Attention. ("It was all I could do under the circumstances...