Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students interested in taking the course, given by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, must fill out a brief questionnaire asking field of concentration, home town, possible career choices, job experience, and other outside interests. The course staff hopes to have a wide variety of interests and backgrounds represented in each section...
...everyone cheered the news, and realizing that they would not, the Tory government shrewdly timed the announcement for the holiday season when members of the House of Commons were out of town. To the royal family, "Dickie" Mountbatten is a favorite blood relation (he is both Elizabeth's cousin and Philip's uncle); to Britain's political leaders, who keep advancing him, he is a diplomat-sailor with charm, foresight and savvy; to his fellow officers he is courageous and capable; to the newspaper-reading public he is part hero, part legend, handsome and dashing...
This week bearded Fidel Castro was moving at the head of his irregulars toward Havana, getting tumultuous welcomes from every town. His movement would have to reorganize Cuba and try to run its government; he promised that the rebels would permit the harvesting of the vital sugar crop and restore constitutional rights. But he would not personally run the show, he said. "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it," he vowed. "From now on, the people are entirely free, and our people know how to comport themselves properly...
...newspaper strike, which muffled the critics' unanimous raves. Yet when news about J.B. did spread, via TV, radio and word of mouth, its theme of modern man's agony must have touched responsive chords. By last week J.B. was one of the hottest tickets in town, and requests for seats are pouring in by mail at a rate of nearly 500 a day. Advance sales have zoomed to $250,000, and weekly profits top $10,000; the play will earn back its $125,000 production cost in about three months...
...Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson. The poolroom was Eddie's world in whatever town he happened to be, and such moments of truth as he experienced boiled up behind the eight ball. He was a pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill...