Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.O.P. primary over two opponents was Willis A. ("Bill") Trafton Jr., tall (6 ft. 3 in.), genial young (37) father of six and speaker of the house, who never before had campaigned outside his home city of Auburn (pop. 24,500). An inveterate pipe smoker with a penchant for bow ties, Lawyer Trafton has much of the same boyish appeal that has worked so well for Ed Muskie, but is rated a poorer speaker. To beat Muskie in the celebrated "as Maine goes" Sept. 10 elections, he has his work cut out for him. Reason: the G.O.P. turnout...
...sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child brought up on such verses may break his mother's heart or die on the gallows but he will never suffer from a tin ear.") To his eleven grandchildren, modest Poet de la Mare would bow gently down and ask curiously: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" or would admonish: "Behold, I tell you a mystery," leaving them to supply their own explanation to his elaborate, whispered incantations. His message to grownups was to search everywhere for beauty. When death struck, Britain...
...capricious cubes as occasion demanded, the three picked up 2,300,000 francs ($6,570) between them. Then something went wrong; the Casino dice that Aggie had temporarily removed from the contest got stuck in his sleeve, and he had to pass the croupier a loaded pair. A cherubic, bow-tied observer with the look of a house detective tipped the nod to the croupier, who promptly raked in the dice, and the three Californians, sensing that their good fortune might be at an end, tiptoed softly out of the gaming room, past the well-tended Casino gardens and across...
Freshmen--stroke, Mark Hoffman; seven, Pete Tullock; six, James Lenard; five, Dean Wood; four, Townsend Swayze; three, Jim McClennen; two, Tom Nuzum; bow, Paul Wolhford; cox, Barry Peale...
Combination (rows at 6 p.m. on Friday afternoon)--Stroke, Nick Platt; seven, Bill Henry; six, Milan Heath; five, Jack Farlow; four, Harry Fitzgibbons; three, Jim Meade; two, Toby Baker; bow, Robert Dole; cox, Joseph Polofsky...