Word: beckett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First line left wing Bill Beckett attributed the lopsided score to the fact that the Huskies "did not skate very well." He said they were unable to handle the puck or control it in their territory...
Star players from outstanding secondary school teams fill every position on the Yardling squad. The line is bolstered by Chris Norris and Jim Dwinell from Choate and Bill Beckett from Belmont Hill, while Bob Bland, star goalie for Noble and Greenough for three years will be in the nets. Practice sessions have been held since early November...
...Beckett's menagerie of performing enigmas is now loose in the ballroom of the Commander Hotel, of all places. They are nasty little brutes, most of them, with none of the heartening docility of trained seals or tigers...
...example, at the end of Act II Vladimir learns that the mysterious Godot has a white beard, and whispers "Christ have mercy upon us." In the recent all Negro production of Godot, Pozzo, who has just left the stage, has a white beard; Hartman's Pozzo does not. Beckett's text admits both devices, and both are effective...
...almshouses in the nearby village of Harbledown, Archivist Urry wondered why. The city treasurer hadn't the foggiest. So Urry peered down through history, found the grant's origin nearly 800 years deep. In 1170, his dreams darkened by the blood of Archbishop Thomas a Beckett, the conscience-stricken Henry II ordered the grant to the almshouses to be made in perpetuity. Hence, chirps Urry, "every time anyone living in the city of Canterbury pays his or her rates, he or she is contributing toward the penance made by Henry II" for murder in the cathedral...