Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team's first test sans Louria and Ray comes up five days after spring registration. It brings Army's traditionally strong wrestlers to town and will be an extremely important match, for it will give Jordan some idea of how his weakened forces will fare against opposition--Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale...
...Beard, My Beret." A change was just what the board of trustees wanted. The board had already eliminated one political science teacher for "ultraliberal views"-bearded, mild-mannered T. Barton Akeley, who had been popular with his students but not with the town ("My beard, my beret. They just can't take idiosyncrasies"). When some of the students picketed in protest, Ashby was outraged. At his convocation, he promised to eliminate "termites" with a squirt of DDT (TIME...
...black town car built for Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
...foolish if it were set in modern times, but as a turn-of-the-century fable it seems plausible enough. The hero (Dan Dailey) is a rainbow-chaser-a dreamer, a promoter, an incurable gambler. He is the type who insists on financing a hospital in a small Arizona town because his wife (Celeste Holm) is expecting her first baby, but he is also ready to gamble their home against the long chance that he will bring in a copper mine. Dailey will take a flyer on anything, but once an enterprise is established, it always slips through his fingers...
...father was a Roman Catholic who struggled to remain respectable in the midst of deepening poverty-but the Dreisers once had to thank the benevolent mistress of an Evansville sporting house for furnishing them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...