Word: halloweens
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...succeed Mary Bunting when Mrs. Bunting left in 1960 to be president of Radcliffe. At Douglass, Miss Adams has been a popular leader: she liberalized curfew hours, fended off attack by war veterans on a satirical poem in the campus magazine, told spooky stories to the girls on Halloween. She plainly admires firm administration but knows that the job consists of "making possible the really important activity of the college, the educational...
Music fills the evening, and the instruments have such wondrous personalities that they sometimes threaten to upstage the cast. Among those played are the mbira, timbila, kalimba, guitar-lute, Lozi drums, tampura drone, bamboo pipe, Japanese koto zither, and double respiratory linguaphone. These vary in appearance from hollowed-out Halloween pumpkins to xylophones seemingly made of baby elephant tusks. The chief players, Andrew and Paul Tracey, are equally adept with bagpipes, clarinets, flutes and tubas. Of the three fetching girls, Dana Valery has a voice of expressive authority and distinctive beauty. She has the show's tenderest numbers, folk...
...white stucco house on Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
...churchly foibles-such as that the movie Rotten to the Core was approved by the Legion of Decency, or that a Brooklyn firm sold costumes modeled after the garb of priests, bishops and nuns for trick-or-treating children to wear in celebration of "the religious meaning" of Halloween...
Costumed in flying togs, Danny Kaye set off from New York's La Guardia Airport to pilot a friend's twin-engined jet to nine U.S. cities to whoop up support for the Halloween "trick-or-treat for UNICEF" campaign. The idea was for the kids to go out and collect nickels and climes for the agency, the United Nations Children's Fund. At Philadelphia, Danny had an urgent phone call from UNICEF's executive director, Henry Labouisse, 61, and when he got to Washington, Danny told the waiting schoolchildren about a very large treat indeed...