Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flipper-Flapping. Harry Truman spoke more soberly. He asked the assembled Democrats to remember the party platform and to help him carry it through. Then he recalled that Princeton University was engaged in publishing the complete works of Thomas Jefferson; he hoped that someone would also publish all the writings of Jackson, Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Columbia College found nothing wrong about him. A onetime Rhinebeck, N.Y. high-school principal, he first went to Columbia in 1917, quickly rose to professor of history. In class he had his own brand of brilliance. Lumbering slowly back & forth across his platform, arms folded across his chest, he had a way of making history come alive without resorting to flashy dramatics. Students flocked to hear him and seven times voted him their most popular prof essor. In 1943, when Columbia College needed a new dean, President Nicholas Murray Butler picked Carman...
...Krishnamurti days, Mrs. Besant was converted to socialism by Bernard Shaw. A warm friendship on the lecture platform and over piano duets led to talk of marriage, but since Mrs. Besant was still legally married, she suggested instead a detailed, written contract of cohabitation, which Shaw rejected with "Good God! This is worse than all the vows of all the churches on earth. I had rather be legally married to you ten times over...
From the Spire. Last week, as Viennese again mounted the 343 precarious steps to the observation platform just above the lookout of 1683, they still talked about "the Turks," but they meant the Russians. From St. Stephen's, on a clear day, Viennese could see the Red Hungarian border, 40 miles away. They knew it was strung with barbed wire, studded with police stations-as ominous as the camels and the silken tents of the 17h Century Turks...
...Chinese Theater. Snappily uniformed attendants parked the arriving Cadillacs (many rented for the evening at $25). From the red-carpeted curb, past an awed crowd of sandwich-munching fans in bleachers around the entrance, stepped scores of stars into the arms of 14 pressagents, who whisked them to a platform for an amplified introduction. The standard response: "I hear this is one of the greatest pictures . . ." Inside were 32 special usherettes and four extra theater managers from other Fox cinemansions...