Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson performers include Jan Jersten and Steve Chandier in the foil. Harry Ziel and Bob McConaughy in the saber, and Walton Rawis, George McNair, Lester Scherer, Paul Ferand, and Phil Erard in the epee...
Standout performers for the '56 team were Steve Schneider and John Livingston. Each won three bouts, Schneider in the foil and Livingston in the epee. Other Yardling winners included Tony Provenzano and Cliff Thompson in the foil, Bill Kaden in the saber, and Bill Pierskalla in the epee. They each salvaged one of their three matches...
...Jerry Lewis.* Stressing story instead of unadulterated slapstick, The Stooge plays it for chuckles rather than belly laughs. Dean is a song & dance man with an accordion and a swelled head, who is only a dim light on the Great White Way until lame-brained Jerry becomes his comic foil...
...High Heater. The U.S. Rubber Co. announced a new home-heating system which uses radiant-heating panels applied to the ceiling like wallpaper. Called Uskon, the panels are only iV in. thick, contain rubber sandwiched between thin layers of plastic and aluminum foil. Cost per 4-ft.-by-6-ft. panel, with thermostat: $40. Cost of installation for a two-story, three-bedroom house...
...clock around. Also present, almost constantly, was Pediatrician Herbert J. Grossman, waiting to flag the surgeons when the time came to operate again. For the doctors were convinced that neither twin could get much better without a top to his brainpan (now closed lightly with plastic, metal foil and bandage). The longer the brain cavities remained unsealed, the greater the danger of a fatal infection. So far. neither of the babies was strong enough to face more surgery...