Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bunker Bean (RKO). Admirers of Harry Leon Wilson's famed Merton of the Movies will find in Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume...
Possibly because of its unimportant cast and modest aspirations, Bunker Bean is practically perfect hot-weather entertainment...
...November 5: Bingham announces U. S. should participate in Olympics. November 8: Morison addresses nation at first meeting of Tercentenary Celebration on Harvard's past. November 14: Hall wins Burr prize. Student Council votes $2500 to PBH. Nov. 19: First Ames Prizes go to Gibson and Johnson. November 22: Bunker named 1939 Redbook head. November 23: Jayvees slaughter Yale 37-7. Varsity drops heartbreaker to end mediocre first season under Harlow. Conant announces plans for roving Professorships. November 27: Ryan, found guilty in janitor case, officially expelled...
...been able to remember something other than the shots he himself had inexcusably wasted-a 3-ft. putt on the 14th, a pitch into a bunker on the 15th, making his last round a 73 instead of the 71 it should have been-Cooper last week would have had food for pleasant recollection as he cast back over his opponents' failures...
...pamphlet is the work of Jack D. Andrews '39, chairman of the Guide Committee, and Robert M. Bunker '29, chairman of the Red Book...