Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancer Bolger is a mobile piece of American folklore. Boston-born, warm and witty, he has a sort of Ichabod Crane appeal-he is trampled on but triumphant. At 52 he is still as nimble as he was back in 1936 when Broadway gave him stardom, for his part in George Balanchine's difficult Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet, in On Your Toes. Eventually he emerged as a character comic who could also deliver a wistful lyric. By Where's Charley?, he was translating most of life into impish leaps and droll gesture. "In show business," says Bolger...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Stephen Crane's Blue Hotel...
When he returned to Harvard, Taylor took over the teaching of the first half of History I, but, with the advent of General Education, he and Crane Brinton transformed the course into the present Social Sciences I. Taylor taught the first fine half of this course up through last year, when he gave it up, partly to have more time for research, and partly because he felt the course had reached the stage of development he had been aiming...
With such a background, it is understandable that Vellucci is more popular in East Cambridge than such Harvard graduates on the Council as DeGuglielmo and Edward A. Crane '35. The councillor has come to represent the little man in a perpetual struggle with the big callous administrations of Harvard, M.I.T., and the state and city governments. He would also like to extend his friendship to the student body as against the Harvard bureaucracy, although his threats last year to fine every student who parked illegally might seem to belie this...
...this field--keeping the beard meaningful--the Council might legitimately take action, for, after all, the government protects the whooping crane, and the Holstein-Friesian Association of Brattleboro, Vt., protects the Holstein...