Word: falmouth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: S. N. Behrman's Biography, with Faye Emerson...
...Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: Hilary (new play), with Joan Fontaine...
...Hours. The steel-hulled Pamir set sail from Hamburg last June for Falmouth, England, and Buenos Aires, with a complement of 53 cadets and 33 veteran seamen aboard. Last week, homeward bound from B.A., she was struck by the full (127-knot) force of Carrie, which the skipper had not expected to hit for a full two hours. Even as Captain Johannes Diebitsch barked his orders to douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper...
...Irving Langmuir, 76, first U.S. industrial chemist to win (1932) the Nobel Prize, prolific experimenter in what he called the "borderland of chemistry and physics," a "pure research" staffer at General Electric Co.'s research lab for 41 years, and a pioneer rainmaker; of a coronary thrombosis; in Falmouth, Mass. Langmuir once said: "Whatever work I've done, I've done for the fun of it." His fun included such breakthrough inventions as the gas-filled light bulb and the high-vacuum power tube (the heart of modern radio and TV broadcasting...
Stroke Carlo F. Zezza, Jr. '57 of West Falmouth won the Bruce Finlay Vanderveer Trophy, which goes each year to the man making the greatest contribution to the Yardling boat...