Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nelson was awarded an inscribed silver bowl, "given (annually) by the Boston football writers, radio, and television men to the New England college football senior, whose achievement on and off the gridiron was considered most outstanding...
...another series, seamanship, and not racing tactics, gave the Crimson skippers the silver. They brought back the Wood Trophy from Providence only because three of their four boats managed to finish the first race, while high winds took care of the rest of the competition...
...talked intermittently during the next 24 hours, with time out for a deer hunt by the dawn's early light (Kennedy and Johnson each bagged two bucks-the legal limit) and Lyndon and Lady Bird's 26th wedding anniversary dinner (one anniversary gift: a silver tray, from "Jack and Jackie"). The two men mulled over plans for the organization of the new Congress, the NATO parliamentarians' meeting in Paris this week (Johnson will be chairman of the U.S. delegation), and the L.B.J. role in the new Administration. "It is my belief," said Kennedy, "that Senator Johnson...
...last week. Only one stable in U.S. turf annals has racked up such mountainous winnings in one year of racing (Calumet Farm has turned the trick six times). In Louisville, Whitney and fourth wife Mary had had high hopes of cracking the million mark with their grey filly, Bright Silver. Whitney was short of his goal by only $3,399, and the winner's purse in the race was $3,900. But Bright Silver, the favorite, uncooperatively came in sixth. As the week wore on, two of Whitney's horses placed, picked up an additional...
...sort of celebrity: one longtime column correspondent moodily addressed his next letter to "Darling" instead of "Dear Mr. Porter." From the U.S. Senate floor, in 1942, Colorado's Edwin Johnson branded her "the biggest liar in the United States" after a rash of Porter attacks on his silver policy. As the only lady business columnist in harness, she was in steady vogue as a lecturer. "After all, our second choice," wrote the executive secretary of the Massachusetts Bankers Association to Sylvia's lecture agency, "would not have the allure and woo-woo of Miss Porter...