Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lynn Brua '41, a member of the varsity fencing team, has a rope-spinning act after the style of Will Rogers, which he developed over the course of ten years, while both a clown and a Punch and Judy show are acts offered that are exceptionally well suited to children parties...
...however, will take 10 to 15 hours a week and they don't go along with the lectures, which makes the course a little difficult to organize. Fieser's Organic Chemistry (Chem. 2) is good for learning experimental technique. Fieser himself is said to be a "kind of a clown," and his lectures are the best and major part of the course. This is one of the most popular courses in the department. Chem. 4 is absolutely unnecessary for Divisionals but good for research. Wilson "peps up a difficult- subject" in Chem 6. This is a necessary course for advanced...
...high-class special ties, "Hi Ya, Gentlemen" has come to town with a vim, vigor and verve making it a serious contender for the title of best musical comedy of the year. Incidentally, it proves what every sports-writer has always known: Max Baer is at heart the clown, not the fighter, and is better off by far in the former role...
There are a clown who has worked several summers with a circus, a cowboy rope spinner, a handwriting expert, two palmists, and two complete puppet shown...
Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...