Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...
...Bedford: Charles S. Kelley III '36; 150 Hawthorne, New Bedford, Mass...
...David M. Whalen, Medford High School; Arthur I. Brown, Jr., Newton High School; Robert G. Funke, North Attleboro High; William F. Pickard, Jr., Quincy High School; Wilmon B. Chipman, Reading High School; Hubert C. Maguire, Jr., Belmont High School; John F. King, Concord High; John F. Pereira, Jr., New Bedford High; Maurice P. Billings, Jr., Spaulding Memorial School; Ralph L. Zani, North High School; Donald R. Whitehead, Quincy High; and Thomas H. York, Dedham High School...
Vice president for next year's sophomore class is Gracia Taketa of Washington, D.C., and Bertram Hall. Louise Provinse of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Barnard Hall will be class secretary; Judith Braverman of Bedford and Cabot Hall is treasurer, and council members include Carol Cummings of Cambridge and Briggs Hall and Sarah Pond of 51 Walker Street...
...pursuit of the Amorites. The prosaic writer then adds: "So the sun came to stop, and the moon stood still, until the nation took vengeance on their foes." [It] is as if a British chronicler, writing about King Henry V, came upon Shakespeare's Henry VI and Bedford's outcry: Hung be the heavens with black! and added, in his prose, "The heavens were hung with black when Henry died." Or, as if a dull reader quoted: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, and commented: "Shelley says the skylark never was a bird...