Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the women again outnumbered the men. A four-girl Barnard College team, led by Heritage ("Cherry") White, 21, and Phyllis Hurwitz, 17, creamed the University of Southern California (three males, one female) 195 to 65. By winning its second straight victory (fortnight ago the girls beat Notre Dame 230 to 110), Barnard nailed a spot on the next program, on April 12 (v. the University of Minnesota), will stay on until defeated. The only cash prizes: $1,500 for the Barnard scholarship fund, $500 for Loser U.S.C.-both from Sponsor General Electric. Participants get no money...
Despite the scandal, the puzzle gimmick scarcely missed a beat. A few papers, e.g., the Philadelphia Bulletin, decided they had had enough, but most puzzle contests went right on. In a front-page statement, the Milwaukee Sentinel said that since the fraud had been exposed and "the leak" stopped, there is no reason why the puzzle game should not be more popular than ever...
...already drilled sample wells off California in water 1,500 ft. deep. Drilling in three miles of water would be harder, but Geologist Bascom thinks it can be done. So do the Russians, who claim to have drilling equipment just as good, and are apparently trying to beat AMSOC to the Moho...
This jabberwockian fantasy is not the handiwork of a beat generation poet, but the nightly stock in trade of the nation's slickest new vocal group-the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor...
...times the lyrics tumbled out like rolling dice; at times they floated with a coolly languid back beat. Sometimes the trio sang three different lyric lines simultaneously...