Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of public lectures and poetry readings will be presented throughout the Summer School session, beginning July 9 with a lecture by a member of the International Seminar. The International Seminar Open Forum, starting at 8 p.m. in Littauer Auditorium, will continue to meet every additional Wednesday through August...
...fairy godmother has not heard the call yet. In Worcester's Memorial Auditorium last week, 3,000 Republicans met in convention to talk about their candidates for the November elections. As if Kennedy himself was not enough to worry about, there were G.O.P. mutterings of a tougher campaign ahead as a result of the Sherman Adams-Bernard Goldfine difficulties. Before this gloomy curtain, the Massachusetts Republicans riffled through a stack of possibilities and made their selections...
...attack by builders who would like to replace it with an office building, is as fiercely defended by a "Save the Jail" group, including Architecture Historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, who calls it "a treasure of which Pittsburgh is the custodian." Status: besieged but still standing. ¶ Chicago's Auditorium Building, the first major work of Chicago Pioneers Adler and Sullivan, which served as the setting for Republican Candidate Benjamin Harrison's nomination for the presidency in 1888, and is ranked by Frank Lloyd Wright as "the greatest room for music and opera in the world-bar none." Closed...
...eyed little man in the blue suit and glossy silk tie stood at the rostrum in Philadelphia's Municipal Auditorium and squinted misty-eyed down at the placards waving back and forth. They all trumpeted the same theme: "Jimmy, Don't Leave Us"; "Jimmy, We Need You!" For two minutes James Caesar Petrillo, 66, blew his nose into the first of two handkerchiefs, mopped his eyes with the other. Finally, the words came in a convulsive croak: "Little Caesar is bowing out. Goodbye, Little Caesar...
...community environment for its students. A well-organized athletic program, a complete range of extracurricular activities, and a series of social functions, as well as the academic schedule, all fall under the high school's aegis. Social life too usually revolves around high school friends, and cafeteria, corridors, and auditorium provide popular, if not private, sites for rendezvous...