Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traded visits, Tito has presented the monarch with a yacht, and Ethiopia has built a palace in Addis Ababa just for Tito-Haile Selassie has veered away from the West to sample the plums of neutralism. After a triumphant red-carpet tour of Europe and the Iron Curtain this summer, the Emperor came home counting his blessings like beads on a string: $5,000,000 from the Czechs, $7.14 million from the Germans, $10 million from Tito, plus a passel of economic advisers who now virtually manage Ethiopia's economy, and a grand prize of $100 million from...
...about $300 million. Love brought him more money in the shape of Athina (Tina) Livanos, beautiful daughter of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Livanos and sister-in-law of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Niarchos. The glow of the Onassis fortunes attracted the famous. Aboard his yacht Christina IV during the summer's fateful Mediterranean cruise were, in addition to the Meneghinis, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill and assorted Riviera bluebloods...
Then there was Mr. Axeler, the "Mad Cossack" of the Half Moon Country Club -one of the summer camps for manhunting secretaries and girl-hunting clerks in which young Moss served six miserable years as "social director" and resident clown. The sleepless grind of "making fun" for the guests-an occupation also survived by Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Herman Wouk and dozens of others-consisted of reciting Shakespeare by the campfire, impersonating Fanny Brice, staging a full-length musical each week, supervising endless Spanish Fiestas and Greenwich Village Frolics. Mr. Axeler's establishment in Vermont was really more...
Late in the summer, the word "Seminar" was added to give the project a degree of concreteness, and three weeks ago a "catalogue" was sent to freshmen listing 22 proposed study groups. Entitled the "Freshman Seminar Program," the groups will include a total of 150 to 175 freshmen, who in many cases need qualify only with "enthusiasm and lively interest." Despite the fact that the program has been established well enough to present a seminar curriculum, the ideas and opinions of its organizers are still in a state of flux. Approach a dozen men leading seminar groups and a dozen...
...year 1959 provided serious theatregoers in the Boston area with a good deal of summer dramatic fare. The season was the most active since 1956; and if, on the whole, it did not quite match in quality the level of 1957, the highest within memory, it still offered plenty of things to be especially thankful...