Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Wayne Emery and musical director Frank Modica have obviously done much to make Of Thee I Sing a spirited and engaging show. Sex (seven, count them, seven lovely girls in bathing suits,) a pleasing and exciting clash of color and motion, and the always rousing music and lyrics of the Gershwin brothers promise Of Thee I Sing a successful run at the Winthrop dining hall...
...really first-rate citizens of a second-class power, Britons, says Punch, must throw off centuries-old habits and 1) "master the art of boasting," 2) practice "indifference to the welfare of birds and animals," while "almost everybody must use the rank of colonel or count, to make both the Army and the Aristocracy look ridiculous...
...After warming up with an easy 1,500-meter freestyle victory at the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships in New Haven, Australian Olympian Murray Rose, 18, felt so relaxed that he forgot to count the laps when he kicked off next night in the 22O-yd. grind. With only 20 yds. left to go, Murray, now a Southern California freshman, suddenly realized the race was almost over. He thrashed up to full speed, just managed to come up from third to touch out his countryman and collegemate, Jon Henricks. in a meet-record...
Easy Victory. When the bell rang last week, Perlstein swarmed all over the opposition, won an easy knockout. His slate of directors polled 56% of the votes cast. After the count, the vanquished did not even get the chance to speak; when David Pabst tried to make a statement for the record, Perlstein cut him off-in the interest, he explained, of a brief meeting...
...Died. Count Alfred Potocki, 71, once Poland's No. i aristocrat, brother of Count Jerzy Potocki (onetime-1936-40-Polish Ambassador to the U.S.); in Geneva. In Poland's pre-World War II twilight, Potocki liked to entertain visiting royalty at the family's lavishly furnished Lancut Castle, which is now a Communist rest center...