Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELLIOTT CAMP...
...Threw out the first ball for the new baseball season and watched Washington upset Boston 5-2; played his first spring golf on both Burning Tree and Gettysburg Golf courses; hooked five trout while fishing at Camp David...
Bigeard first made a name for himself as a sergeant in 1940 when he held out in a Vosges dugout five days after the rest of the army had surrendered to the Nazis. After escaping from a German prison camp, he joined De Gaulle, eventually took charge of the resistance in the Ariège department in the south of France. At Dienbienphu, in 1954, he characteristically fought until his last round was spent, then walked out of his bunker to surrender with his hands stuffed ostentatiously and contemptuously in his pockets...
...unpretentious West Country bachelor squire who rode to hounds and managed the family textile business until World War II, he helped plan the costly Arnhem operation and, at 44, insisted on going along. Breaking a thigh in jumping, he was captured, went home on crutches from a German prison camp at war's end in time to run for Parliament. He felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin had been killed in the war. His personal diffidence won him respect in the House; his shrewd advice on business affairs won him esteem...
...Camp works in ice and acid, Pianist Prince-Joseph, in his album Anything Goes (RCA Camden), coaxes surprisingly sensuous sonorities out of his pedal harpsichord. His album achieves a fusion of styles that he refuses to label either jazz or classical. In I Could Have Danced All Night, for instance, he starts with a theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs...