Word: georgian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LAST week, while U.S. citizens thought about their 1959 cards, Hall was going over the 1960 line, studying it during the day, taking it home at night to see how it looked by the light of the fireplace in his Georgian mansion set on a 700-acre farm outside Kansas City. Some time soon, Christmas 1960 will go to press, and next year every American will get at least one greeting card the original of which is back at Hallmark bearing a curt...
...more years, Bixler tried to climb the hill. He finally made it in 1952. Today Colby has 27 Georgian buildings, a plant valued at $15 million. Enrollment has hit 1,180. From 53 teachers, the faculty has increased to 113. Faculty salaries have gone...
...suave and courtly Georgian, "Red" Dowling, 54, is known around the world for his aplomb and tact. He has a wide firsthand knowledge of Europe (he had been slated for the post of Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until Murphy announced his resignation) and is thoroughly familiar with the problems of West Germany in particular, having served in Bonn for three years (1953-56), first as Deputy High Commissioner, later as Minister of the U.S. embassy. German-fluent Ambassador Dowling is equally at home with aging chiefs of state. In his most recent post, as Ambassador to Korea...
Sentimentalists may compose elegiac dactylls in memory of Georgian Grace, but the residents of Quincy House look proudly out of their fish-bowl refectory or patter happily about their duplex suits. The elevators have failed occasionally; so far there is no way to get water in the dining room; some ceilings are not completed; and the courtyard is still unreclaimed desert. But the Quincy organism is alive and functioning...
...just try to finish the race on our feet, men," mumbled the New York Daily News's Frank Holeman. nodding sleepy-eyed over a glass of white Georgian wine in Sverdlovsk's Grand Urals Hotel. His sentiment was shared by all of the 73 U.S. newsmen accompanying the most tireless tourist ever to visit Russia: Vice President Richard Nixon. "[The other] tourists encountered along the way are regarded by now rather enviously as a happy, carefree lot," cabled the Washington Star's European Correspondent Crosby Noyes. "For them there are, presumably, no pre-dawn departures, no missed...