Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HOWARD MAYER BROWN '51, teaching fellow in Music and Lowell House tutor, will beat out the rhythm of the bells on a weekly basis. Brown plays the bells without aid of written music, but has two husky helpers to swing the clapper of the big bell...
Every race was close. In the 400-yard free style relay, swimming against the Big Red foursome of Doug Love, Bob Bell, Robinson Ord, and Roy Swanson, the Crimson's Lind and Jack Dinsmoor fell slightly behind. But third man Gus Johnson held his own against Ord, the Big Red's ace, and Chouteau Dyer came from behind in the last leg to win by a yard and a half...
...streets are choked with gaudily painted, bell-tingling pedicabs, with tiny, pony-drawn gharries, with stray livestock and rickety prewar Fords and Chevrolets, all cowed by the horn-blasting Packards, Cadillacs and Mercedes of government officials, black marketeers, Chinese and European traders. The near chaos of Djakarta's streets is symptomatic of the near chaos-economic, political and social-of the whole republic...
...your Dec. 20 article on those English bell ringers: those fellows may not have bats in their belfry but they sure have bells in their bathos. It plainly shows that you don't have to be crazy to be an Englishman, but that it sure helps...
...make a profit, i.e., sell 5,000 copies or more in bookstores. This year's fiction bestseller, Morton Thompson's Not As a Stranger, has sold slightly more than 175,000 copies (in comparison, Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit sold 450,000 copies in 1944; Harold Bell Wright's The Eyes of the World sold an advertised 750,000 copies in two months in 1914). This year, probably no more than 25 novels sold 50,000 copies, which means that about 25 fiction writers earned (at 50^ a book) as much as $25,000 in hard...