Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fill out the term of the late Harley Kilgore, is a handsome grandfather, a tireless, bassoon-throated campaigner, a conservative flailing at apathetic Republican voters. His opponent is conservative, too, but fast-moving, breezy Robert C. Byrd, 40, father of two girls (aged 21 and 17), is hard to beat. A former grocer and three-term Congressman, he shrewdly turns on the corn at country meetings, singing and playing the fiddle (Bile Them Cabbages Down), recites inspirational poetry (God Give Us Men), advocates old-age pensions for 60-year-olds. Republicans are circulating a letter written by Byrd...
...television show, durable, leathery Carl Sandburg, 80, stuck to whisky sours at a Hollywood cocktail party in his honor. Back in his prairie years, he told adulating filmlanders, he "reviewed a thousand films in seven years for the Chicago Daily News." Someone asked what he thought of the Beat Generation writers. Said Sandburg: "I don't concern myself with ephemera...
Penn, on the other hand, started the season badly and has been steadily improving. It lost the opening game of the season to Dartmouth 2 to 1 (the Crimson beat the Green in overtime by the same score), but has won its next four games, including a victory over Princeton, one of the Ivy League powers...
Penn's real strength lies in its experienced forward line, which returned almost intact from last year's team, which beat the Crimson 6 to 2. Howard Rockett, an All-Ivy selection in 1957, will start at center forward, while the rest of the line will be made up of Bob Davis, Ray Schroth, George Simonf, and McBee Butcher...
...years when it defeated Tufts 7 to 6 this year. Its 7-0 victory over Dartmouth marked the first time since '55 that the JV team defeated another Ivy League team. This win also marked the first time the team was able to score two successive victories since it beat Yale its last game in '54, then won the first game of the '55 season...