Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...which most demands of social intercourse can be met by an ability to tune a television set, Miss Carlyle's methods might seem eminently sound. "The strawberries in the field, the blueberries on the bush, the clams in the sand, the fish in the sea will remain where they are unless you go out and pick them," said Miss Carlyle...
Church & Chairs. No delicacy of feeling or scruple of conscience should daunt the dedicated 20th Century maiden. Miss Carlyle cited approvingly a schoolteacher who set out to call each of 96 colleagues to ask if she had a brother or uncle suitable for marriage (the 87th said she had). Any place is a good place for the assault, said Miss Carlyle. On cruises, ask the booking agent "when and where eligible bachelors sail ... Kiddingly coax the deck steward into placing you between the two handsomest men on the boat...
...from the Philippines. Also from the Philippines came Major General Howard M. Turner, commander of the U.S. Thirteenth Air Force, and from Tokyo came Brigadier General Alonzo P. Fox, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Far East Command; they would make a more detailed survey, expedite U.S. aid, set up a liaison staff. Coordination would probably include a Nationalist armed forces training program under U.S. officers...
...Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed on San Francisco and April for the opening U.N. conference, there still remained an argument over the exact day. From the back of the room, Sir Gladwyn called: "Why not start April 25-that's my birthday." Amid laughter, the 25th was set...
...Margaret's escort at the Goodwood ball this year and companion during the Goodwood races, 26-year-old Billy Wallace could claim to be a close rival of Johnny's. Moreover, Billy represented the modern set, and was rated, according to one arbiter of London society, an "amusing, smart, gay companion with American connections" (after his father's death in 1941, his mother married American Journalist Herbert Agar). Gossips felt that Billy might appeal more to Margaret's volatile character than "quiet and friendly" Dalkeith, who is bored by nightclubs...