Word: ve
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, where actresses traditionally shun fleshy publicity poses once they become stars, pressagents gingerly asked 42-year-old Barbara Stanwyck to get into a bathing suit for some photographs. Barbara beamed: "I've been perfectly willing to pose for cheesecake art, but nobody ever asked...
Slickers & Roadsters. Benefactor Duke had put up an initial $6,000,000 to provide a new 8,000-acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete...
Liquor sales were slow--slower than they've been for a Dartmouth weekend in a long time--local saloon keepers reported. One restful police sergeant commented, "Times certainly have changed...
...high point of the afternoon came when one student demanded to know whether the Coop hired negroes. Mr. Cole became strong-voiced and frenzied. "There is no discrimination in the Harvard Cooperative Society." he proclaimed dramatically. "There won't be any! We've had negroes, we've had Chinese, we've had Indians, we've had Japs, but"--as an afterthought--"we still haven't had Malays." The student was satisfied by the answer, and the rest of the meeting came as an anti-climax...
...closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled in one hand. It could have the extra seat. This was Saturday afternoon, and Vag had a job to do. "What the hell," he thought. "We've got five more to go." As he paced himself through the gate, Vag lifted his head slightly and looked up at the deserted dining hall. "Kill the Indian!" he yelled, as loud as he could...