Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer he will play a concert in the Hollywood Bowl for the first time. He is also thinking about a musical salute to the African Negro republic, Liberia. He adds, lazily: "I'm thinking about it. I'll decide pretty quick if I want to keep on thinking about...
...final-meeting of his undergraduate students before the reading period, the class presented him a silver bowl inscribed: "To Dean Pound with great devotion and esteem from the members of his last class in Government 43 in Harvard College...
Then he got ready to swing off on a four-week, coast-to-coast speaking tour. For this, the advance noise was already terrific. Hollywood Bowl officials started most of it by canceling a Wallace speech on the shaky excuse that they did not want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...
...soccer, and is rumored to write an occasional sports column under a pseudonym. Sometimes he strolls out to a simple pizzeria called La Carbonara, frequented chiefly by taxi drivers. Characteristically, he has broken with the darkling tradition of Communist revolutionaries, and does not play chess. Instead, he likes to bowl and play scopone (an Italian card game). His party comrades like him. They sincerely call him Il Migliore-The Best...
Despite a limp (one leg is shorter than the other), he has rolled more perfect (300) games, 68 in all, than anyone else. He can and does bowl with either hand, with both at the same time, with his foot. In Detroit, where bowling goes biggest in the U.S., he gets $900 a week when he puts on exhibitions. Says he: "If I'd been a golfer, I would have putted with precision. As a bowler, I am a master of rhythm." Varipapa's confidence is unbruised by the fact that in 16 tries he has never...