Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principal, a direct, distinguished-looking Negro woman named Margaret Douglas-politeness, cleanliness and the will to study are the vogue at P.S. 133. The school is so overcrowded that pupils attend in two shifts. But the children are sent to school in clean dresses, clean white shirts (and bow ties) and seem to be scrubbed daily within an inch of their lives. They work "like little angels." "In years to come," says Mrs. Douglas proudly, "these children are going to be something...
Paganini treasured the instrument for the rest of his life. He took it home to Genoa, where he devised some of the fantastic technical tricks-such as playing pizzicato with his left hand while bouncing his bow across the strings with his right to create a dazzling cascade of notes-that bewitched audiences all over Europe. On the last night of his life, in 1840, he called for it, and spent some of his last moments improvising on its strings. In his will, he left it to the city of Genoa, for "perpetual conservation...
Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Sir Cedric Hardwicke in The Big Bow Mystery...
Murder in the Bow. In The Boat, it was every man for himself in one of the less altruistic episodes in the annals of the sea. Author Gibson's gory little memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged...
...night there was an unusual amount of screaming and shouting. In the morning 20 people were missing. Dully the survivors realized that five soldiers in the bow seats had formed a murder gang...