Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neighbor. In Seattle, as Australian Ambassador Howard Beale entered the city in a police-escorted limousine, a man in another car drew alongside, gestured for Beale to open a window, shouted: "I thought you'd like to know there's a state cop following...
...record crowd of 40,276 at Maryland's Laurel Race Course, the U.S.'s unsung Tudor Era led for the entire mile and a half, at the finish of the $100,000 Washington, D.C. International was apparently an easy 3 ½length winner over the Australian entry Sailor's Guide. The University of Maryland band proudly played the national anthem. But the "objection" sign flashed on the tote board, and 21 agonizing minutes later Tudor Era was disqualified and Sailor's Guide named the winner. Explained Sailor's Guide Jockey Howard Grant: "Tudor Era kept...
...addition to Griswold's tour, Harvard and Australian law schools are exchanging ideas through visiting faculty members. Peter Brett from Melbourne is at the Harvard Law School this year as Ezra Ripley Fair Teaching Fellow...
Died. Sir Douglas Mawson, 76, Australian explorer of the Antarctic, longtime (1920-52) professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Adelaide; in Adelaide. Born in Yorkshire, Douglas Mawson went to Australia as a child, made his first journey to Antarctica in 1907 under Ernest Shackleton, was one of three men to reach the south magnetic pole. Leading his own expedition in 1911, he discovered George V Coast; and on one of the most legendary Antarctic journeys, he was the only survivor among three men, at one point had to stew his sledge dogs to stay alive...
Judith Anderson plays the star role like a First Lady of the Stage, which for Miss Anderson is nothing new. Her Australian accent is comprehensible once you get used to it, and not inappropriate for the memory-ridden, shabby-genteel matriarch. She projects a genuine grandeur, a sense that no matter what Isabel Lawton does she is somehow worthy of admiration. In cold fact Isabel Lawton is worthy of very little admiration, and Miss Anderson makes her much better worth watching than Mr. Lamkin had any right to expect...