Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monitor (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Premiere of NBC's marathon (eight hours the first time; thereafter, 40 hours starting Sat. 8 a.m.) catchall weekend show of news, music, comedy, sports, theater, weather, time signals and assorted gimmicks...
...decades he has taught at Harvard, thousands of students have sailed into history under Morison's command and few of them will ever forget the voyage. The waters could be rough and the weather stormy, but no one could ever say that the trip had been dull. Last week, as he got set to retire, Morison was more than merely a great historian. He was also, in the tradition of Parkman and Prescott, the eloquent champion of history as the art of adventure...
...Alas! says Cadart, life is not so easy. The peaceable snail has a host of enemies: the weather, rats, turtles, crows, foxes, ducks, parasitic insects that lay eggs in its flesh, and picnickers who abandon bits of canned heat, which is death to snails. When Cadart has described all the troubles of les escargots, he is close to tears...
...spin in "The Brickyard." Grey rain clouds scudded over Indianapolis; damp winds skittered across the infield as the Memorial Day 500-mile auto race got under way. But Wild Bill Vukovich, 36, the "Grape Picker" from Fresno, Calif., had no time to worry about weather. He kept his eyes on the track. A two-time winner in the 500, "Vuky" was hell-bent on pulling off an unprecedented three...
...local weather machine last night predicted pleasant if cloudy weather for the Reunion and Commencement Week jollification's. Nice weather has plagued final week festivities every year except 1936 when above average rains washed the Union over to the Faculty Club. The Boston weather man (not yet replaced by machine) chortled that "the emphasis that year was on soaking the rich...