Word: beaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some hilarious vignettes. To make room for a goat, a bewildered British couple are demoted from their first-class compartment into third, there to rub insensitive feelers with a slithering mess of outraged Irish lobsters. A sweater-girl (full-blown by Maureen Connell) snares a husband under the diverted beak of her matchmaking aunt. Even the bar-girl gets a romantic Irish proposal: "How would you like to be buried with my people?" After many minutes' wait the uproarious caravan pro ceeds on its way, leaving the pleasant feeling that if the Dunfaill stop was a fair sample...
...expansive ground floor of Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne looked like a specter-haunted landscape from Mars. Birdmen, ten inches tall, made up of a human thorax, bare-boned ribs and a spinal column topped by oversized beak and reptilian eyes, stared back at the spectators. A human-size Praying Mantis in female form crouched ready to spring; a Shepherd with half-decayed body tottering on three spindle legs looked more like an abandoned sheep carcass than a human figure. The reason for this nightmare in Paris last week: 82 pieces finished in the last...
Eliot gained its first touchdown on an end run by Dave Holmes, while Bud Saylor converted. The team's two other touchdowns were scored in the second and third quarters by passes from Mac Hyde to Pete Beak...
Died. John Bayard Taylor (Jack) Campbell, 76, bumptious, beak-nosed ex-managing editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 350,270); of cancer; in Los Angeles. A specialist in blood-red journalism, he began reporting in 1899 for the San Francisco Chronicle, once scooped Rival Reporter Jack London by fishing a murder victim's head out of the bay and having it photographed for Page One. He joined the Los Angeles Herald in 1911 as city editor, was managing editor of the merged Herald & Express from 1933 until his retirement...
...would be possible for the College to hold registration on a Friday rather than a Wednesday to give a three day rest for those with Monday exams, and a six day beak for those whose last exam was on the previous Friday. In addition, the administration could alter the present rotation system of exam scheduling so that fewer than 2,800 students would stare at blue books on blue Mondays. By placing the exams of courses with small enrollments on Monday, more students would have longer vacations. This would not only benefit students, but would also aid instructors...