Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neglecting to comb their haid or to put on lipstick. Actually this attitude has its benefits. A Harvard junior reported how shocked he was at first to have girls in his classes. Having graduated from Exeter, he used to rush to his Humanities 2 lectures in Sanders Theater for box seat, so that he could "survey the crop of girls from every angle." "For the first three weeks he learned little about the Odyssey. But after a while he sighed, the objects of his attention "found being beautiful a bore" and he started to listen to the lectures...
...Gunpowder sits where the judges were. History is preparing a new sort of world, Durward: cruel and political, thoughtful, violent. Louis XI of France is its symbol. If you're to match him, my Scottish cavalier, you may have to restrain your more glorious impulses." Since glory is box office, Taylor is in trouble. Things come to a head one night when "The Spider King" (Robert Morley), as history knows him, sits spinning his political web. "We are about to embark on a foul venture," he murmurs to a cackling familiar. "Foul and necessary, fit only for gypsies...
...another brisk and stylish scene, surrounded by intelligent people who are obviously enjoying themselves. Kay Kendall, for instance, makes a damozel as dainty as court broidery, though she has precious little to do (as Grace Kelly complained when she refused the part) but "clutch her jewel box and flee." Robert Morley very nearly carries off the whole show. As he heaves before the camera, swishing his eyes about as lesser players might wave their arms, and wagging his paunch as though it were a prosperous province, he looks at one instant every ounce a king, and at the next...
...miraculous and mysterious sac of muscle will elude man's determination to control it. But one of the most hopeful items in medicine's advancing knowledge is that heart disease and heart attacks need cause far less of the chill dread that used to surround them (see box). "Perhaps the most dangerous thing we doctors can do in managing patients with heart or artery disease," says Page, "is to discourage them with too many don'ts. It is disturbing to me to read medical recipes for long life which first prohibit smoking, then alcohol, and tell...
...town has no cable connection with Concord, site of the nearest CBS station, two steel towers were built to transmit the voice and picture across the New England countryside on a special microwave circuit. On the day of the game, there were so many CBS men in the press box that reporters and broadcasters found themselves with something like half a seat apiece. Though CBS denies that the total cost of televising the game reached $50,000, the figure could not have been much less...