Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vest & a Smile. With the white upper crust, however, Earl Baldwin fared less well. He affronted Whitehall by suggesting that the Colonial Office stop sending him suggestions and start sending money. He snooted officials of the U.S. military base on Antigua, and at one ball for blacks and whites condescended to dance only "with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered...
Neither Hal Ulen nor Tiger coach Howie Stepp will pay much about the contest. Both need a win tonight, as upper-bracket standing in the Eastern Intercollegiate League is at stake. Princeton will have the benefit of being at home in its spanking new Dillon pool--the most ultra-modern dixiecup in the east. The Crimson, on the other hand, has a somewhat better record this season and possibly the edge in material...
Some 70 students crammed the small Adams Upper Common Room to hear Aiken and Philippe E. Le Corbeiller, lecturer in Applied Physics, discuss the Limits of Science." Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was moderator...
Barnard College for women, the poor, proud relation of Columbia University (endowment: $75 million) was out to improve its financial lot. Barnard, whose red brick buildings of institutional classic stand along Manhattan's upper Broadway, only a stone's throw from Columbia's city campus, has an academic reputation which only such women's colleges as Vassar, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr can equal, and a faculty (borrowing from Columbia's) that most others cannot. But last year, asking no more tuition ($700) than most other top schools, Barnard (endowment: $5,000,000) operated...
...American Independent Oil Co., which last year won the oil concession to Sheik Ahmad's half of the neutral zone (TIME, July 19), sent him a token of gratitude: a 195-foot diesel yacht, complete with 25-man crew, dishes, linen, and a sheep pen on the upper deck. "There's nothing elaborate about it," said American Independent's President Ralph Davies. "It's merely in good taste, and appropriate. He's the ruler of a country; he can't be expected to ride in a rowboat...