Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adam Ember is a common soldier in a nameless army. Hill 317 is a hopeless position in a strategy never understood. The landscape flickers back and forth between realism and surrealism. The road along which the regiment marches "was not a marching straight into autumn . . . Under our marching boots the grass withered and faded." Through sucking mud and pathless rain, the soldiers march to Hill 317. They fight, joke, brawl, complain and die on the hill, forgotten by headquarters. Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that...
...When food runs low, hunger destroys human feelings, levels rank, reduces commander and commanded to animals. By unspoken agreement, the commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there is no Hill 317"-in headquarters files, that is. Adam Ember, half delirious with hunger, has a vision of a huge...
...sense, this discontinuity is proper. As Adam Yarmolinsky '43, first chairman of the Yardling and now a Washington attorney, explained, "The Yardling was the kind of thing you could do in the relaxed atmosphere of the late thirties...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., A.B.C). The Story of Donald Duck. Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Manhattan Merchant Adam Gimbel and Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra. Damon Runyon Theater (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Broderick Crawford in Dancing Dan's Christmas. General Electric Theater (Sun 9 p.m., CBS). The Windmill, with James Stewart. A-Bomb Test Blast (Tues., 8 a.m.. CBS and NBC). On-the-spot (Yucca Flat, Nev.) radio-TV coverage. Bob Hope (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). With Lloyd Nolan, French Songstress Line Renaud...
...Adam, Hugh, and Henry Foster, all former Crimson squash captains and number one men, established the trophy for the winner of the tournament which was originated...