Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bow-Wow-Wow. Material came from home too. When Ethel Merman sang the funny patter song By the Mississine-wah in 1943's Something for the Boys, she was singing about the river that flowed through the 750-acre property in rural Indiana, where Cole Porter was raised. His father was an Indiana fruitgrower, and his grandfather was a coal and timber baron worth $50 million. As a boy, Porter was a prodigy who was writing songs before he was ten. When he got to Yale (class of 1913), he immortalized the college mascot; Yalemen will remember him forever...
...boyish face, drawn in a tight smile, appeared amid the tangle of pipes and levers. Pulling fiercely on his broad nose, he hopped over a conveyer belt laden with chocolate drops, strode quickly to a nearby worker, tapped the elderly lady on the shoulder, executed a brisk mannerly bow, brought forward his cupped right hand, grinned very very hard and blurted: "Howaya, howaya. I'm Governor John A. Volpe, Howaya...
Those broad grins fold his face into a mass of wrinkles, reminders that the ex-Governor's life was once hard and impoverished. That penchant for shoulder-slapping and small talk reflect the Babbitt-like boosterism which brought him business success during the Depression. That briskly polite, nearly oriental, bow which introduces each handshake reminds one that Volpe's recent years have been graced with comfort and prestige...
...center, which is just beginning to get organized, will take over the Social Relations Department's house at 9 Bow St. after the department moves to William James Hall early...
...attack took place at about 4:15 p.m. on Bow St. in front of "A" and "B" entries of Adams House. The business student, Roy A. Safanda, fought off the youths and complained to a nearby University policeman...