Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...appear on the questionnaire, asking for approval, objections, and comments. Activities now listed include a tea dance, buffet supper, and evening at the Brattle Theatre for Friday; a formal dinner at Moors and the class dance combined with the regular spring formal Saturday; and a picnic to Crane's Beach Sunday. Last year only 50 couples attended to separate senior class formal dance...
...buyers included Hotelman Abraham Sonnabend, who operates Boston's Shelton, Puritan and Somerset, Chicago's Edgewater Beach, and three other hotels. Also in the group: the Sixty Trust, one of the maze of tax-free trusts set up by Royal Little of Textron...
...Navy corpsman say, "This guy is pretty bad." Whether the jeep had hit a mine or collided with an oncoming amtrac, no one knew. Bell had a broken arm as well as chest and leg injuries, Davies a severe concussion and McDonald two bad cuts. Lugged to the beach, Correspondent Bell dictated a story for LIFE to Photographer Carl Mydans before he was taken aboard a hospital ship...
Three other newsmen were wounded in Korea. Most seriously hurt was NBC's 24-year-old cameraman, Gene Jones, who with his twin brother Charles was taking newsreel pictures of the Inchon invasion. Soon after he hit the beach, Jones was badly wounded by shell fragments. On the Han River with Marines driving toward Seoul, 23-year-old William Blair Jr. of the Baltimore Sun was shot in the back by a sniper. The New York Times's Harold Faber was shot in the thigh while covering an Eighth Army assault across the Naktong River...
...They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...