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Word: sweatshirts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their spare time. Usually one can see there a Princeton, Yale, or Columbia student who has driven to Sarah Lawrence to spend the afternoon hours. While representatives from these three universities date the Sarah Lawrence girls most often, one occasionally sees some pig-tailed coed sporting a Harvard sweatshirt...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...trousers and a hooded sweatshirt with a large cross hanging from his neck, Pastor Delattre is a busy man-serving his bread and wine, bailing his flock out of jail, counseling pregnant girls, speaking to church groups, being pointed out to tourists (the mission is a regular stop for sightseeing buses). He never brings up the subject of religion. "If they ask, I reply. And, believe me, many people preach to me, and I've been transformed. Church people often ask me: 'Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Far-Out Mission | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Soldier plus his Malady of Love for a two-night stand. The next night, in black tie, he turned up in the pit of Manhattan's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where he presided over a performance of Leroy Anderson's brassy musical Goldilocks. Four days later, in a sweatshirt, he was hovering over the orchestra that accompanied Rosalind Russell and cast in a two-hour production of Wonderful Town (see SHOW BUSINESS). The determined gadabout: Broadway Composer-Conductor Lehman Engel, 48, one of the nation's busiest and most versatile men-about-music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Man-About-Music | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...After that, going home to a family must seem humdrum." Thus the handy Beat Generation label, a device more literary than lifelike that has been applied to everything from Godot* to Bardot, was formally pinned on Brando. But the experts disagreed violently about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials of a true beatnik. Certain habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Down Beatnik | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...winner of each lap got a $570 prize and a bright yellow sweatshirt (le maillot jaune) to wear during the next day's racing. A dedicated professional, Cyclist Bobet wore le maillot jaune almost all the way. And after the backbreaking scramble to Briangon, the last laps across the Vosges Mountains and the black roads of the North Country all seemed downhill. At week's end, Bobet pedaled into Paris' Pare des Princes, a comfortable 15 min., 49 sec. ahead of Switzerland's Kubler. Third man in the Tour's history to win twice running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tough Tour | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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