Word: browned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an Indian boy walked into the Victoria Times office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when boats upset on rapids. White men do not never learn...
Like many another College listener, Kyser's wife, pretty ex-Model Georgia Carroll, once protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed to try some tougher ones. "It was a mistake," he recalls. "We had the dullest show in the world. The minute you have anything harder than a subject, predicate and question mark, they can't answer them...
Movies produced or directed by Clarence Brown (Flesh and the Devil, National Velvet") are not likely to be commonplace. Intruder is an honest attempt to picture the South as it actually is, but Brown's efforts to underplay the sensational and the macabre material lead to an impression of stiffness. The menacing events are pictured with such a reaching for poetic blandness that, by contrast, an energetic shot of the sheriff whipping up some scrambled eggs becomes a hardhitting, action-filled image...
...freestyle events will be manned as follows: Captain Joe Fox and Shep Brown in the 50, Mort Hull and Dave Stone in the 100, and Bob Berke and Doug Kinney in the 220. The 200-yard relay lineup has not yet been determined...
...Glee Club will be directed by William F. Russell. Other artists include Jean-Pierre Barricelli '45, 3G, Howard Brown '51, Caterina Beer-Fornario, Ruth Gallagher '49, Anthony A. Giarraputo '50, Andrew M. Hoath '50, and Cynthia Lloyd '50, The program includes Renaissance metots and madrigals, 17th century music for the harp, Bach's Italian Concerto, da Vinci's Fluto Sonata, arias by Mozart, Puccini, Vordi and Donaudy, and a Fantasia Russa for piano composed for this occasion by Jean-Pierre Barricelli...