Word: geoffrey
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...That sounds like a good way to get electrocuted," said Senator Edward V. Long (D.-Mo.), chairman of the subcommittee investigating the incident last month. The laughter in the committee room was short-lived. One of the tax men, Geoffrey Arn, testified that by "accident" the transmitter relayed a lawyer's private conversation with a client--who has since been convicted and sentenced to prison...
...Beta Kappa has elected this year's Junior Eight. They are Gerald B. Folland '68 of Leverett House and Salt Lake City, Utah, mathematics; Jonathan R. Grandine '68 of Eliot House and Wellesley Hills, English; Geoffrey M. Greenfield '68 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills Cal., biochemistry, David R. Haynor '68 of Lowell House and EI Cerito, Cal., mathematics; Peter Ravn-Hansen '68 of Adams House and Hillsdale, N.J., social studies; Kenneth W. Wachter '68 of Quincy House and Westfield, N.J., history and literature; Charles A. Weber '68 of Dudley House and Bethesda, Md., Far Eastern languages; and Stephen...
...Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest (at 83,673 tons) ocean liner. Not a tugboat was on hand to ease her 1,031-ft. length into her narrow slip at 52nd Street because the tugs' crews were on strike. What to do? In she goes, commanded Captain Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr, 57, and with infinite care, using hawsers and anchors and great good seamanship, he and his tars brought their gigantic vessel to dock all by themselves. So precise was his reckoning that the captain even noticed the tide was ebbing a few minutes early. "Rain upcountry, that sort...
...Died. Geoffrey O'Hara, 84, composer, who was the toast of Tin Pan Alley in 1913 when opera's great Caruso recorded Your Eyes Have Told Me and Al Jolson belted Tennessee to popularity, but is best remembered for his rollicking K-K-K-Katy, which became the barracks and marching favorite of World War I's doughboys; of hemolytic anemia; in St. Petersburg...
...barbed interviewer, he played the part of the jolly, flippant gryphon in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Since this modern, de-animalized version had Freudian overtones, the BBC declared it unsuitable for children under twelve. But Muggeridge won warm reviews anyway. "Mr. Muggeridge's whole life," wrote Geoffrey Moorhouse in the Guardian, "has been leading up to the evening when he would dance a dab-toed quadrille, before a carefully prepared audience, against a sky of gathering gloom...