Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced anything more than a routine crossing of the wintry Atlantic. Then, west and north of the Bay of Biscay, the ship was enveloped by an awesome storm. A black sky pressed down. The horizon vanished in flying spindrift. As solid seas began thundering over the vessel's bow, lier radio picked up a warning: worse was to come-the fiercest December gales in 22 years were howling along the European coast...
...fiction. He had, for instance, a penchant for providing flowers for the ship's passengers. He enjoyed toiling on deck with the crew. He kept a motorcycle on the ship, and used it for jaunts ashore-expeditions for which he often donned an electrically lighted bow tie. He was an unabashed radio ham and on dull nights at sea he liked to spell the ship's operator...
...performance seemed an improvement over that of the first section: Ansermet had more control over the orchestra and Primrose played his difficult part flawlessly and seemingly without effort. As the movement concluded, instrument after instrument dropped out until only the soloist and the strings remained playing. Primrose poised his bow for the last note and, with the impact of a siren in an empty subway station, produced the sourest note this writer has ever heard within Symphony Hall...
Primrose had not bolted for the wings as a more impressionable artist might have done, but he never regained the confidence and poise he had shown in the preceding movements. Nor did the audience: every time he raised his bow, the onlookers stiffened in expectation. However, the performance was fully up to BSO standards. Following the third movement there was another commotion--this time on the stage. A violist, arising abruptly, dashed through a side door, and his colleagues resumed their conversations...
...Student Council's administration changes hands tonight as 12 men compete for election to the three top posts. Richard M. Sandler '52 and Louis B. McCagg '52 bow out as president and secretary respectively. Treasurer Richard E. Johnson '52 is a leading contender in the 1952-53 Council presidential race...