Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crew captain Louis McCagg wound up the fall rowing season with a bang yesterday by stroking his boat to victory in the climax inter-squad race. McCagg's boat, which the betting fraternity had given little chance in the pre-race odds, won easily in 4:01 over the three-quarter mile and three length course...
...happened in the middle of Sunday's carillon concert in the Lowell House tower. Gordon Campbell, House tutor, and recently appointed House bell-ringer, was working to a grand climax in one of his Muscovite bell symphonies. Suddenly, one of the chains securing the bells snapped. Campbell went on until another chain snapped. Then a third went, and more after that. A minute later, only three quarters of the 18 bells remained playable...
...moment was a thought theatrical. Yet, as C. W. Ceram shows in Gods, Graves & Scholars, in archeology, the theatrical climax is commonplace. Ceram, a West German book editor who has made archeology his hobby, set out to do for his subject what Paul de Kruif did long ago for bacteriology in Microbe Hunters. The result is a highly readable series of biographical profiles: of the Frenchman, Jean François Champollion, who unriddled the ancient babble of the Rosetta Stone; of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who dug up King Tut, and of several more. The biographical sketches carry...
...climax to this year of the Great Upset came when Harvard walloped previously undefeated Yale, 10 to 3, in the Stadium. This win was hailed by Grantland Rice as one of the "greatest victories in fifty years of football play...
...Massey to reform his drunken nephew (Gig Young), now the husband of Cagney's old girl friend. The job proves mostly a matter of getting the nephew out of gangsters' clutches. The film's crude mixture of social problem and underworld formula is epitomized in the climax: a plug-ugly points a gun at Cagney and orders him to take a slug of bourbon...