Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took Author Charles Gaynor 19. Ever since Dartmouth he had wanted to write big-time musicals. While he was sparring for an opening, he did such odd jobs as playing the piano at weddings and writing college songs for a Fred Waring radio program. Having now performed the rare feat of writing the music, lyrics and sketches for a hit revue (almost always a collaborators' patchwork), he is planning a musical comedy...
...Mayor George Baker of Decorah, Iowa, who says young men aren't what they used to be, offered $50 to anyone who could match his grandfather's feat of carrying a 60-lb. sack of wheat nine miles from Conover to Decorah in one hour and 55 minutes. Ten tried. Six made it, through a snowstorm. Two of them bettered grandfather's time- by 15 and 14 minutes, respectively...
Shannon's fame spread the length & breadth of the Antipodes. In New South Wales one day, Shannon ran a mile in i :34½-a feat more impressive than the world record of 1:34! set by Equipoise at Arlington Park in 1932. In Australia, horses are timed from a standing start, whereas U.S. horses get a five-or six-jump run at the starting pole. The greatest race Shannon ever ran, he lost. That day, he got left at the post by 60 yards and then put on a magnificent charge and barely failed...
Past Radcliffe-Harvard athletic relations have generally centered around crew, and during the war a Radcliffe eight scored an upset win over a Harvard beat. The Misses Jaffe, Reed, and Trygstad were hopeful that this feat could be repeated, but expressed fear that if they lost, crew custom might prevail in which case they would be forced to give their shirts to the victorious Harvardians...
This week the U.S. theater's most successful director of Shakespeare's works (sample feat: she made a hit of the Maurice Evans Hamlet in the uncut version, running 4½ hours) is launching her most ambitious Shakespearean venture. She is sending out a motorized touring company to play Shakespeare on a scale-and with financial assurance-unprecedented by any other troupe of Broadway caliber...