Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Point). Went home to Kansas with his parents in 1915, when his father bought the daily Manhattan Mercury. Worked his way at Kansas State College in Manhattan, where he compiled a respectable scholastic average, but failed to graduate because he rebelled against the science-heavy required curriculum. Undisputed highlight of his college career: a scene in a student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair...
...editors made a commendable attempt to highlight important issues of the year in special feature articles on expansion, the theater, politics, tutorial, and religion. But the wooden prose of these articles overlays and calls to attention ideas based on straw men and poor research. The article on expansion, important as the subject is, is only a -dull and wordy rehearsal of well known arguments on both sides of the issue, and a listing of some of the financial and personnel problems. Throughout the article confusingly mixes the task of raising funds for a home to care for the present overcrowding...
...Love That Lyndon." Aside from this exchange, the Kefauver-Stevenson performance for the week had another highlight: a face-to-face encounter in the Los Banos, Calif. spring festival parade, with Adlai rigged out as a cowboy on a roan horse and Estes silk-suited in a Lincoln convertible. Even so, their general pitch was so routine that Democratic eyes and ears began to wander...
...14th National Exhibition at the Library of Congress, to pick 200 showpieces. In the Brooklyn Museum another jury winnowed out 109 works for display from the 1 ,000 entries in the tenth National Print Annual, also put on view 85 prizewinners of the past ten years. Both shows highlight another big factor in the current print boom: because artists can run off several copies from a single plate, prices ($10 to $100) are about one-tenth the price of a painting by the same artist...
...jazz bands will lead a 150-car Boston University caravan to Braves Field today to highlight the Crimson nine's 1956 opener against a strong Terrier team. The cavalcade, described by B.U. authorities as a "spontaneous idea," will travel from its main campus to the field for the 2 p.m. game...