Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studio One offers Paul Crabtree's A Christmas Surprise (Dec. 24, 10 p.m., CBS), with Robert Q. Lewis and Orson Bean in a comedy about a TV show's disruptive visit to a family on Christmas...
...Provincetown he met Tulla, and this was a significant day in the American history of the coffee bean. Tulla, which means "little girl" in Norwegian, had a seafaring grandfather who once ran short on whale cargo near Java, so started carting coffee back to Norway. Tulla's grandmother soon learned how to make quantities of good coffee, as did her daughter and her daughter's daughter, Tulla. "And I was a little girl, once," she laughs when she explains her name. She seems to have a sort of quiet discipline which will insure the shop's cleanliness, and has herself...
...Middlebury; Dec. 18, Providence College at the Boston Garden; Dec. 27-29, Holiday Tournament, at the Boston Arena; Jan. 7, Boston Univ., at the Boston Arena; Jan. 10, at American International; Jan. 12, at Princeton; Jan. 14, Northeastern, at the Boston Garden; Feb. 1 and 5, Bean Pot Tournament, at the Boston Garden; Feb. 2, at Brown; Feb. 7, Brown; Feb. 9, American International; Feb. 13, Boston College, at the Boston Arena; Feb. 16, at Dartmouth; Feb. 20, at Williams; Feb. 23, Tufts; Feb. 27, Dartmouth; Mar. 2, Yale, at the Boston Garden; Mar. 6, Princeton; Mar. 9, at Yale...
...earth, with well-meaning officials as their natural enemies. The officials are the book's runts and spivs and riffraff-the ones who have fared best under the Welfare State. Old Cock pegs them down (to quote the most printable of his memorable vocabulary) as bowler-hatted, bean-eyed, lousy, bootlicking Picklewaters. The old man is quite a social thinker. After one brush with authority-represented by an arrogant doorman-he reflects: "If we have to take to wearing bowlers before we can get a bit of simple cooperation from our fellowman, who shall not be spat on from...
...Baptist minister for 46 years," he wrote. "I have prayed with scores of people in their last hours. I have turned from the deathbed to comfort hundreds of others . . . Death isn't a pleasant assignment . . . The question was hurled at me: Will my life in these few weeks bean example of what I have preached? Does death look different, now that it has come so near to me, than it looked when I was counseling with others? ... Is the counsel I gave to others adequate for myself now that I face the possibility of an early death...