Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening night of the Technicolored The Tales of Hoffmann in London's Carlton Theater, Dancing Star Robert Help-mann was presented to 83-year-old Queen Mary, who said graciously, "I think the film is very beautiful, and I particularly liked your voice." Replied Helpmann with a bow, "I wish it were my own," humbly explained to Her Majesty that the singing voices had been dubbed...
Died. J. (for James) Thomas Heflin, 82, jovial Alabama demagogue, Democratic Representative (1904-20) and Senator (until 1930); after long illness; in Lafayette, Ala. A cartoonist's Congressman (windy manner, frock coat and black bow tie), Klan-backed "Tom-Tom" stood for higher cotton prices and "white supremacy," inveighed against "the liquor interests," "the wolves of Wall Street," New York's "Roman-Tammany system," and Catholicism,* which he represented as out to i) get his scalp, 2) plunge the U.S. into war with Mexico. In 1928, rather than support Catholic Al Smith for the presidency, Heflin bolted...
...time, Paik hopes to change the whole spirit of his country's schools. Students still suffer from the habits left by the 4O-year occupation of the Japanese. They still bow low to their teachers, rarely dare to question them. They still wear uniforms and caps marked with their school grade. They depend entirely on formal lectures, only to parrot them back on examinations...
Freshmen: bow, Charlie Higginson; 2, Bob Terry; 3, John Sundqvist; 4, George Kinnell; 5, Dick Higgins; 6, Tom Hagort; 7, Tom Peterson; stroke, Larry Brownell; cox, Dick Mann
...Harvard boatings were: Junior Varsity: bow, Bob Webb; 2, Ken Keniston; 3, Cal Dickinson; 4, Link Boyden; 5, Al Rieselbach; 6, Buffy Bohlen; 7, Frank Peale; stroke, Art Rouner; cox, George Walker...