Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three, Harvard's Clive Kileff pairs off with Ham Magill in a baseline battle. Two years ago Magill blitzed Kileff, 6-0, 6-0; last year Magill edged him, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; this year, who knows? In his early matches this season, Magill has been playing below his best. This duel will be crucial...
...year Harvard decisively won over the Lions, 8-1; this year it could be even worse. Princeton easily blanked Columbia, 9-0, Wednesday, without losing a set. Columbia's only player who put up any kind of a battle was number two man Tuck Ganzenmuller, who bowed to Tiger Ham Magill...
...Flash Gordon still zips through space at supersonic speed on the trail of highflying gangsters, while Prince Valiant moves at a snail's pace through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys out of assorted stuffed shirts-judges, politicians, business tycoons-who are unlucky enough to stumble upon the idyllic world of Dogpatch. The grandmummy of soap-opera strips, Mary Worth, who evolved from a seedy apple seller to today's genteel gadabout, has spawned innumerable imitators...
...Speed Howell (number three), and Hugh Lynch (five) is still the team to beat, especially on its home courts. When Princeton edged Harvard here last year, Fitzgibbon was the only player on either team to win in both singles and doubles. This year, led by juniors Keith Jennings and Ham Magill, the Tigers are once again an awesome crew, but without Fitzgibbon, who knows...
...quite dead but already appears embalmed. Oscar Nominee Agnes Moorehead, as Charlotte's loyal drudge is a snarling, scratching sound-and-sight gag who seems determined to out-overact the best of them. But Bette meets the challenge in a climactic staircase scene, a horrendous ham classic. Sobbing, she crawls to the top of the steps, sees something, freezes like a psychotic spaniel, then goes howling down backward and sideways, all matted curls, eyeballs and quivering flesh. By the time she rumbles to a stop, audiences may justly wonder which apparition is scarier-Bette at the bottom or that...