Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered a new tactical course. He has suggested that the University could invite a government suit by administering the federal loans without requiring a loyalty oath. In such a suit, he argues, there is a good chance that the courts would strike down the loyalty provisions of the bill...
...more unsettled cross country teams in coach Bill McCurdy's regime will begin its season against Providence College and Boston University this afternoon in Franklin Park. Providence has the nucleus of a strong 1958 team back this year, but, as McCurdy said yesterday, "if the varsity can't take this meet in stride, it's due for a rough season...
...Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson listened in rapt attention. Momentarily dropping his faraway look, he said: "Will you please find [Administrative Secretary] Bill Blair and tell him about that? He keeps track of that sort of thing...
...watching his idols-Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet; by the time he was 18, he was doing imitations of all three in suburban flea pits. The transition from provincial hoofer to Parisian headliner began in 1944 when Montand, newly arrived in Paris, happened to appear on a theater bill with Chanteuse Edith Piaf, became her protégé. With Piaf's help, he dropped synthetic American numbers like Les Plaines du Far West, began to concentrate on the authentic, dramatic vignettes that are now his stock in song ("One has to realize," says he, "that a song...
...Hearing that, Detroit wags recalled the time when Big Bill Knudsen, G.M.'s late president, boasted to Adman Bruce Barton that a certain new-model Chevy was "almost the perfect low-priced car-and it will really become perfect next year when we make one small change." Barton bit hard. "What change?" Deadpanned Bill Knudsen: "We're just going to hang a small hammock under the chassis. Catch all the goddam parts that fall...