Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curricular passions of Electra, his brassy mistress, played by Hugh Fortmiller, Feek is ulcered into finding a new advertising glmmick to sell ball-bearings. With the help of vice-presidents Arbuthuot, Moriarity, and Carmichel (Ed Bursk, Stove Bolster, Tim Nichols), and a slogan-grinder-turned-playwright named Nadworney (William Allison), Feek finally produces a deus-exmachina legitimate play, plugging the sponsor's product...
...steamship Star of the West on her way to relieve Fort Sumter, the Military College of South Carolina (the Citadel) has had much to remember. It has turned out generals by the dozen (among them: Lieut. General James T. Moore, Major General Harry K. Pickett, Major General James B. Allison). Major Thomas D. Howie ("See you in St. Lô") went to the Citadel, and so did Korean Ace Captain Dolphin Overton. At the Citadel, a plebe is still a Doowillie, Dumbrod, Dumbsmack or Duwack; he must still "crawl" for an upperclassman. If a cadet asks, "What do plebes rank...
...ramp to red velvet carpet, well-wishers shrieked "Banzai!", flashbulbs popped, the Yokohama customs office brass band blared the national anthem, and 500 rounds of fireworks boomed in downtown Tokyo. Self-possessed Akihito nodded to 200 official greeters (including Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and U.S. Ambassador John M. Allison) on his march down the 50-yd. carpet, waved to 500,000 rain-washed faithful on the drive to the Imperial Palace. There he was received by his parents, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, who had watched his arrival on television...
Gartside, who replaces Edmund P. Allison in the post, sang with the club for four years as an undergraduate, much of the time as a tenor soloist. He is now enrolled in the Graduate School of Education...
...good male tennis player beat a topnotch female tennis player? This week the world's best woman player gave New York Times Sportswriter Allison Danzig a decidedly nonfeminist answer. Said U.S. and Wimbledon Champion Maureen Connolly: "He would simply annihilate her. I know. I was annihilated myself yesterday by a pro no one has ever heard of." Added Little Mo, the hardest hitter in the ladies' division: "Men hit so much harder and run so much faster than women that we don't have a ghost of a chance against them . . . They are so much stronger...