Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...astronomer and chairman of N.C.A.S.P., a veteran advocate of party-line causes, was the conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, Composer Aaron Copland, Poet Louis Untermeyer, New York Times Critic Olin Downes...
...Moines Farmers' Tribune. In seven years, Meredith put the unsuccessful Tribune into the black, then sold it to start Successful Farming with the profits. By 1922, he was selling ads for the first issue of his second magazine, Fruit, Garden and Home (now B. H. & G.). At his death in 1928, Publisher Meredith (who had been Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture) left a gilt-edged business to his son-in-law, President Fred Bohen, now 53, and to his son, Vice President and Treasurer E. T. Meredith...
...basketball season, the N.C.A.A. tournament final beween powerful Kentucky and the aggravating, defense-minded Oklahoma Aggies. What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky control the ball that 'or one twelve-minute stretch the Aggies 'ailed to score a single field goal. When Oklahoma's big center, Bob Harris, went out on personal fouls in the second period, it was all over. By a score...
Director Reed has brilliantly followed suit. As the emotional tensions mount, it is Felipe who hears, half hears, guesses at and finally misunderstands their meaning. When Mrs. Baines accidentally falls to her death, Felipe is certain that Baines has killed her; his lies to protect his friend all but cost Baines his neck. Ironically, Baines is saved by a piece of evidence that only Felipe knows is worthless...
...Boylston Prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston, in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory. The competition is ordinarily handled by the Boylston Professor, but that chair has been vacant since the death of Theodore Spencer...