Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President and Mrs. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, March third, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
...conference will get underway at nine o'clock this morning in the Dunster House library. President Pusey, Gordon M. Fair, master of Dunster, Carroll F. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster, Daniel S. Cheever, director of University Alumni Affairs, and several students will describe the present status and needs of the University...
...Nell, at 167, tried the same technique, but undefeated Bob Foster finally pinned him with only seven seconds left in the match. Foster clapped a half-nelson and crotch on him with about 30 seconds to go, and it became a matter of whether he could beat the clock...
...high-toned birthday parties (including the Duke of Kent's, who was 21 last October), in the ballroom of Claridge's and in the drafty Victorian splendor of Balmoral Castle itself, where Queen Elizabeth last summer requested a showing of Haley's movie Rock Around the Clock. The Queen's former dancing teacher. Marguerite Vacani, instructs her aristocratic pupils in its mysteries, and it has become a passion of Princess Margaret, who last week was reported sitting in a London theater with stockinged feet propped on a railing, wiggling her toes in time to the rock...
...London, are now zooming through the industrial cities of the north. At one rocking session Bassist Al Rex was so carried away by the shrieks of 3,000 fans he ripped his pants straddling his big fiddle, played on anyway. Haley's disk of Rock Around the Clock has become the first record to sell a million copies in Great Britain. And even the more dignified of the British papers have stopped viewing him with sober-faced alarm. Said the Times last week: "Mr. Haley pounds his guitar without mercy . . . But there is nothing sentimental or morbid about...