Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a United Press report, she urged that men and women get better acquainted by more dates, single, group, and blind. "Teachers might even require that girls and boys hold conversations during the class hour, and meet every one else in the course," she continued. She stressed the need for greater social relationships for young men and women on co-educational campuses, and pointed out that "only 55 per cent of the students in co-educational colleges marry, and we are losing out in good citizenship by allowing this condition to exist...
Most conspicuous in their absence were some of the headline tsars of last year. Captain "Guieseppe Joe" Gardella, "Blind Pote" Elser, Bill Brown and Joe Koufman of course are out of the lineup for good--via the graduation route...
...Funsters' Bike Club has been in training for weeks in preparation for the exhaustive 90-mile bike race to Smith. The training has consisted of a thorough study of the road map to Northampton, so that no cyclist will lose his way and his energy on a blind road. The second phase of the intensive training begins soon and consists of lining up six Smith girls who will be expected to provide six free meals to each contestant. Just before the race the Funsters will fill themselves with beer so that none will be tempted to touch the evil liquor...
...Antonio Santamarina, Boss Alberto Barcelo of Buenos Aires Province, Fascist-minded Manuel A. Fresco, onetime Governor of Buenos Aires. About the only thing that could upset their plans would be the return of President Ortiz, and a Conservative-controlled Senate Committee has ruled that the President is too nearly blind to read the bills he would sign. Disorganized by Ortiz' illness and frightened for Argentina's future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear favoring cooperation with the Conservatives. Even Radicals are beginning to fear that unless Argentina...
...concert's most musicianly talent was half-blind Art Tatum, who long ago achieved a safe middle ground between Bach and boogie-woogie. He has had serious training, learns tunes from phonograph records or by using a magnifying glass and his one fairly good eye. Art Tatum's showers of notes in jazz rhythm-as in his workout with Dvorak's banal Humor-esque-pleased his Carnegie Hall audience. The evening ended in the loudest jam session ever heard in the hall, or perhaps anywhere. There were three bands-33 men in all, including six trumpeters, five...