Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunges onstage at Manhattan's Bijou Theater, his skinny torso masked by a loose red sweater, his hands feverishly clutching a rolled-up newspaper. Then Monologuist Mort Sahl, 30, star of The Next President, tigerishly launches into his act. He runs on and on and on, a Beat-Generation Cotton Mather who gives half the names in the news a beating, cracking his whip up Pennsylvania Avenue one minute, down Madison Avenue the next. Ostentatiously irreverent, he is at times witty, oftener merely outspoken...
...told, the varsity won nine events, placed second in six, and third in only four. Captain Pete Reider, surprise starter in the mile, beat Jerry Lewis of Army in 4:19.1, while Bill Thompson took third with a stunning 4:22 plus, by far his best...
...other matches, Ned Weld trounced Pete Moss, 6-1, 6-0, Alan Goldman won over Bob Hodges, 6-3, 6-0, Bill Wood defeated Tom Cover, 6-0, 6-3, and Laurie Pratt beat George Koyt, 6-1, 6-0. In an unofficial match, Jim Cameron downed George Koo, 6-0, 6-2. The varsity also won the three doubles matches...
...Egypt. Under hard-hitting questioning by CBS Cairo Correspondent Frank Kearns, Nasser composedly kept returning to a pat explanation for Egypt's antagonism toward the U.S. and its allies: "We are defending ourselves" against "hostile action." For CBS, the filmed interview was a clean beat, made sweeter by the fact that when the show went on the air, ABC Interviewer Mike Wallace had a crew still waiting to grill him in Cairo. Last spring, when Khrushchev faced the CBS cameras, the network drew criticism for letting his remarks go on the air without an immediate rebuttal. This time...
After the gang, whose leader had told the six to "get going" from the corner, began to hurl insults and beer bottles at them, five of the group hopped into the station wagon of George B. Cabot, Jr. '61. The sixth man fell prey to the thugs, who "Viciously beat him up," according to one of the Freshmen...