Word: franticness
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...Houses will play their annual parts in the "Frantic Friday" festivities of the Harvard-Yale weekend today...
...army officer put it bluntly: "There must be a modern force of at least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba more firepower than has ever been seen in the Caribbean...
Died. Mack Sennett (real name: Michael Sinnott), 76, impresario of frantic antics on the silent screen; of a heart attack; in Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, near Hollywood. Canadian-born Sennett started moviemaking under famed D. W. Griffith in 1910, quickly became Sultan of Slapstick, directing Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Bathing Beauties Gloria Swanson and Carole Lombard, Keystone Cops Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle...
Coach John Yovicsin produced some new heroes, although they were hardly of the classic mold. After some frantic first-half switching of signal-callers, Yovicsin settled on junior Ted Halaby. Halaby contributed a goal-line fumble at a key point in the third quarter, but he did move the team well and ran for 25 yards in seven carries...
Lemmon's return to Boston for the pre-Broadway run of his play, "Face Of A Hero," has been a triumphant one. Between rehearsals and interviews, he is plagued by old friends who "know him when" and who want to shake his hand. "It's more frantic here than other places," he explains sheepishly. "After all, it's my home...