Word: mountainously
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hail-fellow parties other automen love, even more rarely invited the brass to his home-a modest, $50,000 English Tudor house near the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, far from the mansions of most other auto executives in Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe. An ardent mountain climber, McNamara reads widely and well (current choices: The Phenomenon of Man, W. W. Rostow's The Stages of Growth), urges his favorites on often bewildered fellow executives. His mind, says a friend who has seen him in Ann Arbor discussions, "is a beautiful instrument, free from leanings and adhesions...
...drunken, gold-greedy prospectors at Sutter's Fort. They ignore Captain Sutter (Jerome Hines), whose heart represents the purest nugget in the West, when he reminds them that it is Christmas Eve, wishes that "gold had never shown its yellow, sneaking face." Meanwhile, out on a snowy, nearby mountain slope, a courageous couple and their daughter (Judy Sanford) are near death from cold and starvation after a long trek west in search of a new life. But miraculously they stumble onto Sutter's Fort, where the revelers suspect them of claim-jumping, refuse to believe her story when...
...Chronicle on the way to a supremacy reflected in the proud masthead boast: "The monarch of the dailies." Last week, after nearly seven decades as Northern California's biggest and most influential newspaper, the Examiner was deep in a fight to see who would be king of the mountain. Once again its opponent was the Chronicle -though the heavy loser in time might prove to be San Francisco's newspaper-reading public...
Burl Ives Sings "Little White Duck" and Other Children's Favorites (Columbia). Big Daddy thrums his guitar and sings Mr. Froggie Went A-Courtin', The Grey Goose, and the rest, with a voice that is clear as a mountain stream and cozy as sitting by the fire. In the path of Burl's music, the weather of a child's mind seems to turn sunny, rapt, calm...
...Theatre has already completed casting for its production of Hammer of the Mountain, an original, experimental play by Firman Houghton, editor of Audience magazine. Stephen Aaron '57, assistant director of Loeb, will direct the play. Rehearsals begin...