Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether they're playing Shaw's Cleopatra or Shakespeare's-a bright idea collapses right at the start. In others, the comedy doesn't know how to build or where to stop. Take-offs on Truman Capote and Gian-Carlo Menotti (written by Comic Ronny Graham), though clever, have not enough magic in their madness. Even Boston Beguine, well sung by the show's topranker, Alice Ghostley, should mingle Harvard and Haiti more hilariously. The show is funniest where the spoofing is broadest: Paul Lynde as a battered African explorer turned lecturer; and "After Canasta...
...teaching. She brought him the illustrated Book of Knowledge, acted out words for him, invented a tennis game to be played on paper. Gradually, as his vocabulary increased, he began to explore territory beyond "How are you today?" and "Is your cold better?" He wanted to know about Alexander Graham Bell, Gandhi and the U.N. In time, he read Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows Up, learned the Gettysburg Address, and Mrs. Vining "entertained hopes that some day at a diplomatic dinner, he would be able to dazzle the American Ambassador by an apt quotation." By the time...
Some of those who are admitted but not awarded a scholarship can apply for student employment. Graham R. Taylor, Jr. '49, Director of Student Employment, said yesterday that next fall he hoped to boost the number of freshmen having part-time jobs to 200, but added that probably 140 to 150 of these men would also have scholarships. This year 170 Yardling hold regular part-time jobs...
Yale comes here fresh from decisively trouncing Princeton. Bob Stevens, top Blue distance man, appears to have a good chance to pick up two firsts, while Doug Graham may be able to give Rittenberg some trouble in the hurdles. Eli sprinters Henry Thresher, Red Frantz, and Larry Reno should be able to score heavily in both...
...seven years had left him in excellent health. White House Physician Wallace H. Graham was able to report that the presidential weight was exactly 174 lbs., just what he wanted it to be. Harry Truman announced that he never felt better. Furthermore, the President had finally gotten the White House fixed up to suit him. Fully settled again, after three years at Blair House, he could not resist announcing that he had managed in the process to escape from That Bed-a carved and canopied four-poster which was installed by Teddy Roosevelt and dutifully occupied by every President since...