Word: bateman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most spectators, including Princess Elizabeth, got their biggest chuckles from Rube Goldbergish efforts like W. Heath Robinson's Magnetic Method of Stretching Spaghetti (at the expense of Britain's face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week...
Last week in Toronto, ex-U.S. Marine WT. E. Bateman was getting set to take a party up the Nahanni next summer to look for Patterson and gold. In Vancouver, Tom Carolan, Army veteran and film technician, planned to lead an expedition into the valley this spring to make a travel film. Perhaps Canadians would soon have another explanation of the wonders of the Headless Valley...
...sections of braying saxophones, had to support only a trumpet, a trombone, and a clarinet beside the rhythm section, and this unique instrumentation, reminiscent of the old time marching bands of Edmond's younger days, evoked a warm, informal flavor which no amount of script arranging by pianist Charlie Bateman, seemed able to eradicate...
Rosee's story got to Wisconsin's silo-sized Frank Bateman Keefe. He reared up in the House and demanded a Congressional investigation of rye. What he wanted to know: why did Commodity Credit Corp. help maintain the corner in rye by purchasing between four and five million bushels of rye last March for export at prices ranging from $1.18½ to $1.29 a bu.? At the time, Argentine rye was available...
...expected to lead the attack, played in Madison Square Garden for a championship Duke University quintet. The tallest man on the squad, 6 foot 5 inch Bob Gottschling, was a starter for Manhattan College, while Jim Gallagher, an Irishman from Notre Dame, Bill Dearden from Ursinus, and Bill Bateman, a member of the 1943 Brown five, round out the crew of prospective high scorers...