Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, the pollsters' choice, knew he had to get out in front at the ballot box as well. Any early setback in the GOPresidential sweepstakes might well prove fatal. Last week, on the heels of Harold Stassen's departure, the Dewey machine rumbled into New Hampshire under a full head of steam, aiming for the nation's first presidential primary on March...
...night, when Bowland was away, 18 hooded Klan bullies set up a fiery cross in front of his house. Bowland's pretty wife, Bertha, who is pregnant, came out, kicked the burning brand over, and shouted at the gang: "Get out, you yellow cowards!" Ten days later Bowland came home after a basketball game and found his wife crouched behind a hedge, a shotgun at the ready, while another gang-unhooded this time-milled about the house...
...rink owners association, has put two decades of his time, energy, and finances into college and high-school hockey, basketball, and track at little direct recompense to himself. He's made it possible for men like Crimson ice veterans John Garrison, Stan Priddy, Goodie Harding, and Dartmouth's '47 front line trio, Ralph Warburton, Bruce Mather, and Bruce Cunliffe to play hockey after college without becoming professionals. Brown gave Garrison use of the Garden for a month before the coach's departure for Europe, that the A.H.A. might get in shape for the Olympics...
...Story (Hellman, Williams; $2.75),* on the bookstands this week, he tramps boldly through the years (1920-25) when he was king of tennis. "I can stand crowds only when I am working in front of them," he writes, "and then I love them!" He seems to have loved none of his partners or opponents...
...Goldovsky's evident insistence that everyone do something while singing. All the staging seemed forced. People would pace about the stage, look at the audience and toward the rear of the stage, and whisper in other characters' cars. To keep the action moving, some seenes were played in front of the curtain while sets were changed behind-with cramped action and annoying off-stage noises the result. All the singers were given to exaggerated postures-one felt like shouting, "Don't be so deucedly condescending!" Costumes were gaudy and ugly...