Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having to do with the space program. At the controls of a jet cargo plane, he would go into a screaming, precisely plotted dive that would create the zero-gravity weightlessness of space ride. In this capacity, he helped in the training not only of John Glenn but of Ham and Enos, the chimpanzees who broke into space before men did. White figures that he "went weightless" 1,200 times-for a total of about five hours-before he was ever selected as a Gemini pilot...
...former stealth, and Actress Rutherford has to flesh out the fun singlehanded. After working her bit of mischief as member of a hung jury, she sallies forth to pursue her hunch that a wilted rose and a faded theater program offer irrefutable evidence that a homicide has a ham in it. While the police fumble, she marshals vast jowls behind a mouth jutted into a small downturned crescent of incontestable certainty, or inhales all the air in her immediate vicinity, then slowly lets it go again, sifting for clues the way a whale sifts plankton. At last, face to face...
Junior Jay Westcott (number three) probably Yale's best hope for a singles . An aggressive player, Westcott was kept his opponents off-balance with net-play. His victims include Princeton's Ham Magill, who against Harvard breezed past Clive Kileff. Kileff, ground-stroker like Magill, will have hands full with Westcott...
...that the Quincy House Drama Society hasn't given her a lovely sack. Director Paul Zimet has mixed a wacky fondue of bright costumes, absurd props and hi-grade ham. Masked soldiers rush each other with pink sausages for swords, dashing about like a Polish division of the Keystone Cops. Andrew Weil as Pere Ubu, the fat man who usurps the Polish throne, leads the whole menagerie. He bellows like a bull, whines like a hyena and eats like a pig. Mere Ubu (Virginia Morrs) comes on with a Bela Lugosi accent, smelling roses, swearing at her husband and slaying...
...Ham Magill, a lanky baseliner, had his strokes in a groove Saturday, downing Clive Kileff (three), 6-2, 6-2; Tiger captain Warren Daane (five) topped Richie Friedman, 6-0, 6-2; and Jim Lemons (six) blanked Terry Robinson...