Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to the theater (Terence Rattigan's bland While the Sun Shines at the Globe). With them was a 25-year-old chaperone, the Honorable Mrs. Vicary Gibbs, good-looking war widow. For once the royal party sat in decent orchestra seats instead of the neck-craning royal box. Squiring Elizabeth was Lieut. Nigel Page of the Blues (Royal Horse Guards), and with Margaret Rose was Lieut. Charles Petherick of the Tins (Life Guards). After the show the Guardsmen took their "dates" straight home, bade them goodnight at Buckingham Palace...
...just a mild draw; The Next Half Hour, by Harvey's Mary Chase, did a fast fold. So did Irwin Shaw's The Assassin. Robert E. Sherwood's The Rugged Path (TiME, Nov. 19) can largely thank its star, Spencer Tracy, for so far being a box-office hit; it was panned as a play...
...years Indiana was the champion low hurdle for Midwestern powerhouses. The University had the smallest male enrollment in the conference, and home games in Bloomington drew so poorly that the team played mostly on the road. First crack out of the box this season, the worm turned with a 13-7 upset of Michigan. Last week the Hoosiers gave Pittsburgh a 19-0 mud bath. This week, if they get by their traditional "Old Oaken Bucket" set-to with Purdue, the unbeaten but once-tied (by Northwestern) Hoosiers will wrap up their first Big Ten (now nine) crown...
Eventually the chemists learned so much about plutonium that they decided to use their new techniques in looking for it in nature. In pitchblende, that mineral Pandora's box of exploding elements, they found unmistakable traces: one part in 100,000,000,000,000. This was the first time that the discovery of a man-made element had led to its identification in a natural...
Dorrder of the day is a Harvard victory which may encRoche upon the conscience of the old ornithologist, whose eleFlynnt line and Champion backfield are Coan to keep the boys in the press box velly busy Cowenting up the Faberious score...