Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the days when men were men and the H.A.A. ran a weekly hare and hounds race to prove it, the Harvard-Yale football game wasn't the namby-pamby event it has become today...
Last week the Miami (Fla.) Herald (John S. Knight chain) provided its editorial department with brand-new typewriters. So astounding was this innovation that Herald Columnist Jack Bell wrote a whole flabbergasted column on the unprecedented event, completely neglected mention that the Herald had the day before completed a modernization job costing...
Alexander Obrenovitch was succeeded on the throne by the father of Alexander II, at whose murder in the newsreel Author West peered "like an old woman reading the tea-leaves in her cup. ... I could not understand this event, no matter how often I saw this picture. I knew, of course, how and why the murder had happened...
...world's great legends, the Byron story will stand almost any amount of retelling. Retold by Peter Quennell, the result is a minor literary event. Reason: Peter Quennell probably knows more about Byron and the romantic movement than any man alive, tells what he knows in a cadenced Bloomsbury prose that is only now & again too self-consciously elegant. As no one appreciates better than sly Author Quennell, a biography of Byron is ipso facto a novel by Proust...
Coach Mikkola will enter seven men in the event, including Bob Houghton, Bill Palson, Tim Coggeshall, Fred Phinney, Tom McElligott, John Sopka, and Bob Jay. Captain Kay Rogers will not make the trip...