Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memory of last year's 133-21 shellacking is probably still green, like everything else in the New England woods. But it's going to take more than thoughts of revenge to bring Dartmouth close to Harvard today...
Dartmouth's other sophomore prodigy is a pole vaulter named Harris Wagenseil, who raised the Green record to 14 ft., 6 1\4 in. this winter. Wagenseil is erratic, through: the Crimson's Steve Schoonover beat him at the indoor Heps, and Schoonover or Dave Bell might do so again today...
...Rare Breed is all conventional outdoor fun, enlivened with fist fights, rugged scenery, and the green-eyed beauty of Maureen O'Hara, who makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds...
...Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish it to professional perfection-a swift, sensitive and funny celebration of a small universal truth. Succinct as poetry, Skaterdater simply happens like a green spring morning; it is the lyric cinematic equivalent of light verse...
Although he writes admiringly of the vast sums expended by Vanderbilts, Goulds and Morgans on yachts, castellated mansions, cotillions, fine libraries and blooded horses, Beebe concedes that for pure genius, nobody topped "Colonel" Ned Green, the spectacularly eccentric, wooden-legged, oversexed son of Hetty Green, the miserly "Witch of Wall Street." For more than half a century, until his death in 1936, Green squandered about $3 million a year on stamp collecting, orchid culture, private railroad cars, teen-age girls, luxurious yachts and diamond-studded chamber pots. Green sometimes traveled with a battered Gladstone valise stuffed with $10,000 bills...