Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Skipper Beach (Annapolis '39) is the son of the late Captain Edward Beach, who commanded the battleship New York in 1918-19 and who wrote Navy stories for children. Ned Beach won the Navy Cross, Silver Stars and a chestful of other medals as a World War II submariner, recorded his adventures in two big-selling books, Submarine! and Run Silent, Run Deep (a novel that was made into a movie...
...mailboxes across the country last week, the letter that brought whoops or wails finally arrived. It came from one of the East's eight Ivy League men's colleges or the Seven Sisters women's colleges. Some kids took it with aplomb. When Brian Silver, 17, slammed into the house from Denver's East High School, his mother handed him two letters. He opened them coolly and said: "I've been accepted by Yale and Harvard. I think I'll go to Harvard." His calm was rare. On Long Island, N.Y., Ciba Ruth Vaughan...
...into Stanford," Hoover told how he helped stage the first football game between Stanford and the University of California. Student Manager Hoover and others sold a lot of tickets in advance of the historic game: "That's why both teams had uniforms." Day of the game, gold and silver coins glutted the ticket office because "nobody used that dirty paper money." But when kickoff time came, there was nothing to kick off. A student had to be dispatched by street car to a nearby sporting-goods store to buy the vital prop of the spectacle: a ball. Still...
...takes in the view and simpers: "Oh. I'm so glad she let me have this room!" She's not really glad, she hastens to explain. She's just playing a game her father taught her, "the glad game." Object of the game: to find the silver lining in every cloud, the gold tooth in every shark. And Pollyanna plays the game with such a monstrous power of positive thinking that after two hours and 14 minutes under that relentless little ray of sunshine, the whole town she lives in is dissolved into a mile-wide meringue...
Sicilian Snopes. Like an embalmed pharaoh, Don Fabrizio is surrounded by his possessions, from powdered footmen to Murano chandeliers, from silver soup tureens to gold-flecked frescoes. When a soldier of the risorgimento turns up in Don Fabrizio's garden to remind him of the passions of the dispossessed, the prince gives his pet great Dane some conservative advice ("One never achieves anything by going bang! bang!'') and retreats to his telescope to contemplate the snobbish quietude of the stars...