Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the 1920s Webster was a member in good standing of that ultra-American generation of writers and actors and cartoonists and illustrators which focused around the offices of the World and The Players and The Dutch Treat Clubs. He has long since receded to the blander pleasures of upper-middle-class suburbia in Stamford, Conn, and -with a mild sheepishness about the stylish address, and sincere enough murmurs about the Websters' susceptibility to colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything is as much worth coming into town...
...exhibit of the photography of John Brook '46, sponsored by Adams House to stimulate interest in a Gold Coast photo contest planned for next term, will be on display in the Upper Common Room tonight through Sunday evening...
...additional clues. It was made, he said, of straw cut in Illinois on Aug. 6, just 21 days after the explosion of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico. Straw cut before the explosion proved entirely harmless. This coincidence suggested, thought Dr. Evans, that radioactive residues, carried into the upper atmosphere in New Mexico, had fallen with the rain on Illinois. The only other apparent possibility was that the Wabash River, whose water was used in the strawboard factory, carried radioactive silt...
Being the Point's best all-round athlete was something else again. After he got the upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel...
...Harvard Freshman ever sat down to dinner with a group of upper-classmen and left the table without hearing a flood of off-purple nostalgia concerning some Golden Age known as "the good old days...