Word: fools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to get approval (Lord Ismay admits that he was dubious), but Winston Churchill was for it. When someone objected that the stunt might misfire and only call attention to the impending invasion of Sicily, Churchill replied, "I don't see that that matters. Anybody but a damn fool would know it is Sicily...
...retiring board of the Brown "Daily Herald" last week moved the publishing date of its annual April Fool's edition to Jan. 15 and announced that President Henry Wriston will replace Brown University's fraternity system with a house plan similar to Harvard...
...beauties of Moscow but depressed by the "civilian army of robots that walk the streets, colorless, drab and ugly. Where are the people that would give this city life, joy, happiness, a smile in this regimented society?" Ambassador Sergeev might well have thought twice about trying to fool the Greeks on the meaning of democracy, since they invented the word...
...high-scoring collegian (15.1 points average), he could carry the day by individual brilliance. As a pro, where the night-after-night competition is much tougher, Cousy's fancy-dan passing sometimes caused costly mistakes. Says Boston Coach Red Auerbach: "I had to get Bob to learn to fool the opposition without fooling his own team." The solution: Auerbach benched Cousy, who hates to miss a minute of play, every time he made a mistake. But Cousy well knows that razzle-dazzle still has its uses in the pro game: "The game needs color ... I'd stuff...
SEPTEMBER-Never Give Up. In Denver, suing a dance studio for $2,610, Mrs. Murrell Selby Collins, 52, charged breach of contract, testified that after 260 lessons an instructor had called her "a silly old fool who would never learn to dance...