Word: vi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GroupDate I, M 8 Sat., Jan. 18 II, M 9 Mon., Jan. 20 III, M 10 Mon., Jan. 27 IV, M 11 Wed., Jan. 29 V, M 12 Thurs., Jan. 23 VI, M 1 Wed., Jan. 22 VII, M 2 Sat., Jan. 25 VIII, M 3 Sat., Jan. 18 IX, M 4 Sat., Jan. 18 X, T 8 Tues., Jan. 28 XI, T 9 Fri., Jan. 24 XII, T 10 Tues., Jan. 21 XIII, T 11 Fri., Jan. 17 XIV, T 12 Sat., Jan. 25 XV, T 1 Tues., Jan. 28 XVI, T 2 Tues., Jan. 28 XVII...
...breezy common touch, once greeted some late-arriving newsmen with a comradely: "What pub were you boys at?" Observed the sedate Sunday Observer: "It may arouse misgivings in those who saw, with admiration, the reigns of King George V and King George VI achieve their resplendent success by very different means. But the new style of monarchy shows the vitality and adaptability of the ancient institutions; it suits the uncommon gifts and energies of the dynamic man who is now at the Queen's side; and, most important of all, it happily meets an urgent need...
...Canadian's first loyalty," said Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, before George VI toured that nation in 1939, "is not to the British Commonwealth of Nations but to Canada and Canada's King." It was a startling declaration to tradition-minded Canadians; the empire-shouting Montreal Gazette indignantly rejected it as "disloyal." But last week, when Prime Minister John Diefenbaker welcomed Elizabeth II for the first visit by a reigning British monarch since 1939, he said: "The Queen of Canada is a term which we like to use because it utterly represents her role on this...
Lest one might think from this that the Vassar girl's life is a mere round of spineless play, one is presented with a solemn full page of "Traditions:" "Salve" (a Latin greeting, not an ointment), which sings the praises of Seniors, vi-vo-vi-vo-vum; Tree Day, on which the Class of '61 must pounce upon a helpless and diseased elm and claim it as its own, thus "leaving its name with Vassar forever;" and such other unique traditions as Convocation and Matriculation...
Power Plant. "Tubby" Clayton did not agree. The Rev. Philip B. Clayton, vicar of All Hallows, chaplain to George VI and to Elizabeth II, is a 71-year-old dynamo with a high-voltage output of devotion, human ingenuity and charm. A World War I chaplain, founder of the British religious organization called Toc H, the organizer of the Winant Volunteers- a U.S. group of college-age boys and girls who pay their way each year to work among the poor in London's slums-Padre Clayton knew how to get what he wanted. He first established squatter...