Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson basketball players last week elected Michael B. Donohue '60, of Winthrop House and Madison, Conn., captain of the varsity five for the 1959-60 season. Donohue succeeds Bob Repetto, whose leadership was instrumental in the Crimson's successes this year...
Hunter faces a host of nationally ranked sprinters in both the 50 and 100-yard freestyle, but as with Stanley, a supreme effort plus luck could bring a first place to the Crimson: A new dark horse in the 100-yard butterfly is varsity captain John Hammond, now recovered from his sinus attack...
...modern classic, Juno and the Paycock is fashioned around characters who escape the last-act curtain and become dramatic immortals like Hamlet, Tartuffe, and St. Joan. Captain Boyle, the strutting Paycock, is a Homeric boozer, braggart and whine. With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life...
...story has been superbly and not too technically told by Captain Russell Grenfell in The Bismarck Episode (TIME, June 27, 1949). Forester's account subtracts many of the facts needed for clear understanding and adds only synthetic excitement. The book is intended as the basis for a British documentary film-a B script for a BB movie...
...frail and handsome man given to fainting fits, who spent ten long years being hopelessly in love with the proud Duchess of Avalon. When she finally capitulated and came to his room, Francis, "maladroit as ever," took the occasion to die. Then there was Thomas Vanbrugh (born 1861), a captain in Prince Albert's Regiment of Assam Light Infantry in India, who gallantly disgraced himself during a native uprising when he ordered a retreat solely to save the local British Resident's wife, a dauntless lady with a superior figure. Finally, there was Edward Vanbrugh (born...