Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Oct. 5 article on Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, you report: "Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without a word, thinking furiously, finally dashed off the drawings...
...near midnight in Mayfair, heart of London's gilded West End. Rain clouds had driven Sunday window-shoppers home early, not a bobby was in sight, and the drifting squadrons of prostitutes who once crowded Mayfair's shadowy lanes had long since been sent to cover with the enactment of Britain's tough new laws against streetwalking. When a solitary car pulled to a halt in front of the Piccadilly shop of the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' Association, the stage was set for the greatest jewel robbery in Britain's history...
...building, presently open Monday through Friday until 12 midnight for studying only, is the only available location for such a social center, according to Cornelia M. DeNood '61, one of the organizers of the project...
...spite of their new-found prosperity, the lame McGee and blind Sonny Terry sing and shout their blues with all the pathos of their poverty-stricken days in Carolina and Tenessee. They began with Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded...
...Lincoln Tunnel and onto the New Jersey Turnpike late one night last week rumbled two chartered buses. Aboard were 84 students from Trenton State College (for teachers) and two faculty members, returning to Trenton from Manhattan after seeing Archibald MacLeish's prizewinning play J.B. It was past midnight as the darkened buses cut off the turnpike at New Brunswick and headed south for Trenton. In the second bus, some of the 40 coeds aboard dozed; others chattered about the play, and a few were singing songs...