Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private calypso party, she watched in awe as nimble "limbo" dancers wriggled under a ten-inch-high bar without touching the floor with their hands, showed no reaction (although officials blanched) when a calypso singer, in an improvised lyric, referred to her broken romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend. At week's end she flew off for ten days in Tobago, British Guiana and British Honduras. Behind her, in Trinidad, Prime Minister Adams dug into the knotty problems-including overpopulation, unemployment, tariff and migration barriers within the islands-that the new nation faces...
...convincing partisan of the Bronx High School of Science is its principal, Alexander Taffel, 47, who took over the job this year when widely known Former Principal Morris Meister became president of the new Bronx Community College. Says Taffel, onetime gifted student at Townsend Harris, a high school shut down by New York City in 1942 in a wave of economy and possible equalitarianism: "We do a better job than comprehensive schools do in their honors courses. The teacher is the key; in our school the teacher doesn't have his courses divided so that he has to spend...
Once upon a time, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland went to a particularly dull houseparty. Conversation dragged and the afternoon appeared to be a total loss. When he returned, some friends asked him whether or not he had enjoyed himself. "I should have been bored," Professor Copeland replied, "had I not been there myself...
...John Mason Brown, "...succeeded in making a classroom seem like a theatre." His voice became such a Harvard institution that he performed annual readings for the Harvard Union at Christmas time, for the Harvard Club of New York, and for a group of alumni who had formed the Charles Townsend Copeland Association in his honor...
TOGETHER AGAIN, gushed the Daily Express, IS IT GOODBYE AGAIN? asked the Daily Mirror. To Londoners, the boldface heads and bolder prose meant one thing: while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were paying a state visit to The Netherlands, tight-lipped Group Captain Peter Townsend, 43, at the end of his 17-month, 60,000-mile world tour, had driven in his green Rover to Clarence House, residence of Princess Margaret, 27. While hundreds milled around outside, the two chatted, sipped tea, then left separately after nearly three hours-he to a rented flat, she, beaming, to a movie premiere...