Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Test matches yesterday led to several changes in the varsity line-up, showing that the team is still being formed. There was a complete rejuggling of the top four players. Last year's number one, Ham Gravem, defeated both Captain Alex Haegler and Steve Gottlieb to regain the first position. Heagler, by beating Brooks Harris, moves from three to two, leaving Harris at three and Gottlieb at four...
Though he did, not go on the southern trip, Ham Gravem, the varsity's number one last year, will probably begin at four Saturday. A left-hander, he is very aggressive, with a good net game and a powerful forehand. Maynard Canfield, who won an important match against Navy at number four, will play at five. He played at nine last year, and employs steady ground strokes and a good twisting serve...
...good teacher is likely to be a born ham, according to the University of Southern California's Shakespearian expert, Dr. Frank Baxter. Dr. Baxter's diagnosis explains why more and more professors are drifting from their cloistered halls to the glaring arena of television. After his Now and Then show ran for 39 weeks on the CBS network, Professor Baxter became a real celebrity and admits that he has enjoyed every minute of it. He turns up at movie premiéres and Hollywood cocktail parties, gets invited to the Library of Congress to give poetry readings...
...Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere and slabs of Cantal cheeses, "the mighty pillars of this Temple of Foresight." Rationing is declared, and Julie beholds a vision come true, all the neighbors...
Protective Custody. In Portland, Ore., the case of Margine Joyce Ham, accused of selling liquor after legal hours, was continued when the court learned that the arresting officer had drunk up the evidence...