Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several exciting individual races promise to highlight the contest. Navy's Gay Hopkins is one of the top middle distance swimmers in the East and might challenge Crimson star Dave Abramson in either the 200 or 500-year freestyle events. Navy's sprinter Collins is also rated a real threat to take a first-place points. He will meet Elliot Miller, Gregg Skalinder, or Alan Engleberg in the 50 and the 100-yard freestyles...
Gaiety & Repudiation. To reach this moment, she has had to shed more than the memory of her early career. She was born in Vienna before World War II, when the city was still trying to be gay. Her mother, Magda Schneider, was a weepy, waltzy actress who was the Jeanette MacDonald of prewar Austria. Her father, Wolf Albach-Retty, was a celebrated actor, and is still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before...
With his Savile Row suits and ingratiating manner, spare, handsome William John Christopher Vassall liked to move about Britain's nicer resorts, impressing elderly ladies and retired colonels as an outwardly gay blade who was really some sort of secret agent. Trouble was, nobody realized just how gay he was-or, for that matter, how secret. Last week Vassall, 38. was convicted in London's Old Bailey of passing British Admiralty secrets to the Russians for six years, rather than risk exposure as a homosexual...
...conversation pit are a younger faculty couple who start as passively trapped bystanders and finish as guilty fellow victims. In the long and lacerating annals of family fights on stage, there has been nothing quite like Virginia Woolf's mortal battle of the sexes for sheer nonstop grim-gay savagery. The human heart is not on view, but the playgoer will know that he has seen human entrails...
First on the scene was Juan Carlos. The prince stepped off the plane from Lisbon with an inappropriately gay smile and wearing impeccably cut sports clothes. Accompanied by his wife, Greek Princess Sophie, he set out for an inspection trip surrounded by foppishly elegant Catalan aristocrats. They were received unenthusiastically by small crowds of grieving townsfolk. Shouted a group of grimy men in Tarrasa: "Less talk and more pick and shovel...