Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Northeastern opened its season last Saturday with a 6-2 defeat by an apparently mediocre Yale team. The game was tied, 2 to 2, going into the third period, but according to Husky coach Jim Bell, "it just happened to be Yale's night to score." Five Northeastern sophomores were playing their first varsity game, and this may have contributed to the Eli victory...
...Bell has a veteran first line consisting of Richie Cavanaugh, Fred Voderer and George Buckley. His goalie, Bill Lawn, gave a brilliant exhibition of goaltending in the only previous varsity game at Watson last year, and will make things rough for the Crimson if he is in form again...
...attenuated lobster claw and a fragile bottle opener, would not appear machine-made, Sculptor-Welder Roszak produced something brand-new in surface ornaments: he carefully puddled ingots of aluminum into "contemporary amor-phic baroque" blobs, then welded them to the steeple's base. Still to come: a bell for the steeple. What it will look like, M.I.T. refuses to say beyond the tantalizing hint: "Of course, it won't look like a bell...
More practical still, considering the crowds at past lectures by Toynbee and Stevenson, would be the construction of a moat and drawbridge. Other exterior alterations would include the conversion of the parking lot into a stable, the lawn into a tournament field, and the bell tower into a falcon roost. Gargoyles in abundance would smile upon the entire scene...
...trading-stamp gimmick into the hottest sales idea of the postwar decade. By playing on the housewife's weakness for giveaways, supermarkets and department stores have rung up astonishing records at the cash register. After Detroit's Big Bear chain of 33 supermarkets introduced Gold Bell Gift Stamps last March, gross sales jumped 40%; Miller's supermarkets in Denver increased their business about 30% by plugging trading stamps. From Los Angeles to Boston, filling-station operators, dry cleaners, used-car dealers and beauty parlors have signed up for stamp plans. Well over 100,000 U.S. retailers...