Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode from the Battery to City Hall in an open car (drawing a street crowd of 200,000 and a flattering paper shower) to receive an official reception from Mayor William O'Dwyer. In 72 hours he spoke at three banquets and three luncheons, paid post-midnight calls on a series of nightclubs, went to three museums, visited the Arab library at Princeton University and inspected the pressrooms of the Newark News...
...week for the B-29s. Less than 24 hours after the Bermuda crash, two B-29s on a 13-plane training flight from Spokane collided in the midnight sky over Stockton, Calif., fell spinning into the rich peat lands of the San Joaquin River delta. Only three of 21 crew members parachuted to safety. Two days later a rescue plane taking off from Tampa, Fla. to join the Bermuda hunt spouted smoke and flames from its No. 4 engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead...
Yale ended as of yesterday morning the suspension of the three undergraduates nabbed by University police in a Wednesday midnight attempt to paint a Y on the Memorial Hall tower...
...Midnight Beachhead...
There's one real difference, and that applies to curfew time in out-of-college buildings and fraternities. Yale being safely out of the range of Massachusetts laws, is blessed with a 1 a.m.--not midnight--closing time...