Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth in A Loss of Roses." ¶ Goodbye Charlie, bought for the movies while it was still rolling out of George (Seven Year Itch) Axelrod's typewriter, was a moneymaker before it went into rehearsal. All it needs now, as Author Axelrod sees it, is a new finish. Boasting the most improbable plot since the satyrical heyday of Thorne Smith, Charlie tells the story of a $3,000-a-week Hollywood writer (Charlie Sorell) who spent most of his time in bed with other men's wives and is brought back after death-in the body of Lauren...
...crippled and demoralized cross country team left for New York yesterday, and the harriers resembled nothing so much as sheep being led to slaughter. This afternoon, the Crimson will compete in the Heptagonal meet at Van Cortlandt park without Jed Fitzgerald or Jack Benjamin. A fourth-place finish would be a smashing success...
After reading three pages in five minutes, Vag began to contemplate the problem of studying. "I wonder," he wondered, "whether I could read a line, then shut my eyes and have a photograph of it in my mind. When I finish the book, the only problem will be turning the pages: but perhaps memory can even do that for me." He spent fifteen minutes experimenting, but all he could picture was the book's publication date...
...other League action, Dartmouth is highly favored to take its third straight with a win over Columbia in New York City. The Big Green is expected to finish strong enough to salvage an otherwise disappointing year. Cornell plays host to the Brown Bruins, who may or may not have enough strength to take...
Despite erratic protection, Meredith has passed for seven of S.M.U.'s 13 touchdowns this year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...