Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year's Varsity should be jolly. Happily, it is not quite that. Red-headed Frank Gurley, the captain, can double effectively in the 1000 and two-mile relay. His 2:15 1000 at West Point earlier this month stands up against anything Yale has done in that event...
Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable...
...Biggest event of the nine-day meeting was the Bible College's graduation ceremony. Four truckloads of flowers were delivered to the women graduates. When it came time for the hymn-sing, a brass band arrived, diplomas were handed out, and 123 new Foursquare ministers went forth to labor in the vineyard...
...Henri Oreiller, a 21-year-old sunburnt peasant boy from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding out victories-in the Pentathlon, the 10,000-meter speed skating, the 18-, 40-and 50-kilometer ski races. No U.S. skier was up to the rugged 50-kilometer (30¼-mile) grind through the Alps...
...only one sure string to its Olympic bow, had to wait eight days to score a point. Then Glamor Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so big an event in Canada that Prime Minister Mackenzie King personally wired her congratulations, and announced his action, amid cheers, in Ottawa's House of Commons. Final winners: Sweden (with 82 points), followed by Switzerland...