Word: merriman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chester Greenough, former Dean of Students, and Coolidge, the first two Masters, were instructed to pick out the boys they desired and try to persuade them to join their Houses. Although Coolidge together with Merriman of Eliot was to enjoy the position of heading one of the two most popular houses in Cambridge through most of the 1930's, Dunster under Greenough got off to the better start. Apparently Greenough promised all-American quarterback Barry Wood an entire entry for himself and his friends if he would choose Dunster. Master Coolidge, as head of the Watch and Ward Society, simultaneously...
...United Press's Merriman Smith cracked the first question. "Mr. President," said he, "the Democrats on Capitol Hill say that bipartisan support of certain portions of your program have been endangered by certain statements which have been made by members of the Administration-statements ranging from the fact that the Democrats were soft to ward subversives in the Government to labels of political sadism. The Democrats have asked or suggested that you stop the statements...
...President had a New Year's wish for the reporters. "I hope," he said, "that all of you get the New Year's raises you deserve." Merriman Smith of the United Press shouted: "Can we quote you on that, sir?" Ike said they could, if they thought it would do any good. Then he got down to business...
...surprise, the first name mentioned at President Eisenhower's press conference last week was "Senator Taft." As soon as Eisenhower had finished a few preliminary remarks, United Press's Merriman Smith popped everybody's question: "Do you share Senator Taft's view that we should forget the United Nations so far as the Korean war is concerned...
...climax of his winter conducting season, Arturo Toscanini picked Beethoven's soaring Missa Solemnis. Following his baton in Carnegie Hall last week were Basso Jerome Hines, Tenor Eugene Conley, and Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman as soloists, the members of the NBC Symphony and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Amidst this phalanx of well-known U.S. artists was one soloist few Americans had ever so much as heard of: a 28-year-old Toronto soprano named Lois Marshall. From now on, listeners are going to hear a lot more...