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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kickoff dinner Monday night will open the 1959-60 Combined Charities campaign. Dean Bundy will deliver the principal address at the dinner meeting of approximately 175 entry solicitors, dorm captains, and House Masters, Richard Crystal '62 and Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairmen of the drive, announced yesterday...
Suggested by the chairmen of last year's compaign, the dinner is designed to get the drive off to an enthusiastic start. Solicitation in the entries and in Yard will begin immediately after the dinner and extend through the week...
...addition, the pilots put in time (cost to the companies: $50 an hour) in a twin-engine translator and a just purchased Convair 340-440 simulator that can simulate every possible flight condition from ice to fire to mechanical malfunction. "There is not a pilot anywhere we could not drive to the breaking point," says Ueltschi. "We hold funeral services every afternoon...
...course, an irrepressible capitalist ("The Rolls is the only sports car I will drive in a Russian blizzard"), shows dangerous bourgeois-individualistic tendencies by riding her tricycle on the frozen Baltic, and utters subversive observations ("Everybody watches everybody in Moscow"). But she makes up for it by getting right into the thick of cultural exchange, playing chopsticks in F at Tchaikovsky Hall, and doing a "rawther unusual" ballet with three elderly snow sweepers, which cries out for Choreographer Jerome Robbins. The book's most remarkable character is Eloise's guide, Zhenka, who has a magnificently declarative style...
Front-Porch Campaign. McKinley was a Puritan by inheritance. His father, an Ohio pig-iron founder, gave Will's mother the most austere wedding trip imaginable-a drive in the buggy to a nearby spring for a refreshing drink of water (the month was January). The son was as free of vice as he was of intellectual curiosity. Throughout his life, his favorite plays were Rip Van Winkle and The Cricket on the Hearth. Methodist McKinley's only unseemly heritage from the smoke-filled rooms where he started his political career was the habit of smoking an occasional...