Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtful, however, that the CCA need seriously worry at all, about such a remark. Its four incumbents on the council, Pill, Swan Crane, and Deguglielmo are all likely to be reelected. Lawrence F. Feloney, a newcomer is running a strong race. CCA's organization and growing prestige are likely to give it at advantage over the "independents" who depend wholly on votes they can rally in this own districts through personal popularity...
After Basil Rathbone's neatly trimmed and waxed voice, Bing Crosby's narration of Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a letdown. The suspicion that Bing isn't taking the tale seriously is disquieting. The doings of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane are tailored to fit Crosby rather than Irving; that is probably why much of the charm of the first episode is missing in this one. There is enough left over to make good entertainment, though...
Potentially, the Harvard community could muster enough votes to elect a representative to the Cambridge City Council and to the Cambridge School Council in the coming election, Edward A. Crane '35, chairman of the Cambridge Election Commission told the CRIMSON last night...
...Crane estimates that 5000 voters, constituting almost 10 percent of the total Cambridge vote, live in the Harvard area. Most of this vote, however, has been dormant in past local elections...
...Crane Brinton is the Charlie McCarthy of Great Britain at Harvard," Eugene Griffin, the Tribune's reporter, wrote in January...