Word: buckely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloomily aware of the failure of other young comedians (e.g., Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest...
Members of Dunster House, past and present, paid tribute to former Housemaster Clarence H. Haring last night at a special dinner in his honor attended by President Conant, Provost Buck, and the entire staff of Dunster Associates...
...Provost Buck, a one-time tutor at Dunster, presented Professor Haring with an appointment as "perpetual" associate of the House...
...buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to put his seal of approval on vaccination by putting his cattle through the process first. Next move was to persuade the parish priest to give a little sermon. Sample: "God has brought a terrible scourge upon us sinners. But God is merciful. He has also brought the anti-aftosa commission...
...weeks by half-baked words and actions in various places of authority on both sides of the Common. Radcliffe's administration is trying to pawn the whole thing off as a question of procedural simplification, and has plowed ahead despite the over-whelming opposition from the student body. Provest Buck has declared it a question to be decided by the undergraduates, and the Student Council has acted on this theory by approving the program for Harvard without so much as an informal student poll...