Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell House sophomore has devised a method to save fellow Bellboys from the crushing Lamont Library fine system. By placing their books in a wooden box the night before, Lowell men can wake up at 11 a.m. and find themselves only 10 to 25 cents poorer. Without the service, late risers might incur losses as high as two dollars per book...
...music season drew to a close and the baseball season opened, the tradesheet Billboard proudly front-paged some comparative figures. In 1953, reported Billboard, 35 million attended professional musical performances (almost as many as the 37 million who went to major-and minor-league baseball games). At the box offices in 2,100 communities, music lovers spent $50 million, while the whole of organized baseball took in only $40 million. With the classical record market taking 30% of record-sale dollars, it looked, thought Billboard, as if the U.S. might be going longhair...
Carnival Story is pretty sure to be accused of being a dirty tease, but for that reason alone, will probably clean up at the box office. Cochran is convincing as a tough lover boy, and Lyle Bettger is clear, persuasive and simple as the husband. Anne Baxter, as she writhes, spits and yowls, gives a horribly fascinating portrayal which should assure her succession to the Bette Davis roles...
...cleverly-drawn gentleman relaxes and toys with a jack-in-the-box on the cover of the April Advocate. Perhaps his lethargy indicates the new season upon us, but more likely it is a result of having read the poetry in the issue he introduces...
...will be used," he said. "There is no guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated the human race or believed that all civilization might be destroyed." Equality of Annihilation. The old, familiar figure stumped up to the dispatch box. With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said. "We are all naturally concerned with the prodigious experiments in the Pacific, but ... we would rather have them carried out there than in Siberia...