Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hear This ... In Columbia, S.C., longtime Navy Cook L. W. George could not conceal his shock when state fair judges awarded his chocolate cake first prize: "I thought my light fruit cake was the prettiest and the best...
...Clara Clemens Samassoud, daughter of Samuel (Mark Twain) Clemens, sued Columbia Pictures for $300,000 for filming his The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, as "a corny love story...
...flying trip across the country, Pandit Nehru got an official reception at New York's City Hall (which was being picketed by striking Sanitation Department workers), visited U.N., saw a stream of callers at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. One night, he drove up to Columbia University; at this shrine of mass education (current enrollment: 29,200), President Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on the Cambridge graduate, some 90% of whose countrymen cannot read or write. As newsmen worked over Nehru in a klieg-lit, stifling hot little room, Eisenhower nervously chewed his mortarboard...
...Andre Cournand of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, for his work on the circulation of the blood, and in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease...
...Segars Mill in the low country, the Segars clan performed the annual ritual of closing down the grist mill and padlocking the general store. As Clemson folks, they looked askance at other pilgrims making the journey to the state capital at Columbia; there was no telling who might be a Carolina sympathizer. There had been friction between the two factions since the day Pitchfork Ben Tillman, the state's rip-snorting governor of the 1890s, branded the university as a center of snobbery and helped found Clemson, a "heman" agricultural college with a strong emphasis on military training...