Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer thumped down in the U.N.'s political committee like a bag of gold on a bargaining table littered with I.O.U.s. By the gift of material weighing no more than a hefty Notre Dame fullback, the U.S. presented the world with a package more fabulous than Aladdin's wildest dreams...
Plugged Out & In. For years, the smiling face reflected in the iron lung's mirror was familiar to millions in newspapers and newsreels. His father spent an estimated $1,000,000 on the medical fight to keep him breathing. Fred graduated from Notre Dame in 1932, went to work in his wealthy father's business, the Local Loan Co. of Chicago. Four years later, in China on a trip around the world, he contracted bulbar poliomyelitis...
...doctor, five nurses, a physiotherapist, two orderlies, two mechanics and a chauffeur), he made the pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. From the Vatican came the Pope's personal blessing. Fred Snite saluted the Pope "as an honorary fellow alumnus of the University of Notre Dame," insisted: "I ask no miracle ... I came here to receive the spiritual strength to keep on getting better...
...fifty lines a character etched by James in as many pages. Barbara O'Neil's portrayal of the intriguing Serena Merle, ineptly introduced by Archibald, is a major disappointment. While she sails imposingly about the stage, she evokes less "the wisest woman in the world" than the grande dame of Kansas City. Director Jose Quintero, however, must take the blame for allowing one outrageous failure. As Isabel's uncle, Halliwell Hobbes does a prolonged parody of Lionel Barrymore and exits with the rending cackle of a road-show Silas Marner...
...Rice had Rapid Richard Moegle, last year's Cotton Bowl hero, but it managed to upset the dope by losing to Wisconsin and S.M.U. ¶ Purdue turned up with a hot-handed teenager, Len Dawson, who passed the Boilermakers to an astonishing upset over Notre Dame (27-14). But if Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi and his "Irish" teammates were something of a disappointment, Dawson and Purdue were soon the same: they took two games to recover their poise. Last week, against Illinois, they were back in form and won, 28-14. ¶ Pitt. although Coach Lowell ("Red") Dawson...