Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With odds & ends picked up for his radio repair work, Trusty Bill eventually put together three short-wave transmitters. He hid two of them near his bunk and one in a tiny guardhouse which trusties used. Then, while prison guards were not looking, Moody became an amateur radio "ham." For the last four years, using the call letters W5BNK, he has held early-morning gab sessions with amateurs in neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio...
...Evans include Frances Bonnanno '50, managing editor; Janet Kapp '50, business manager; Elizabeth Pickles '50, advertising manager; Cynthia Sweeney '50, circulation manager; Mary Grimley '50, literary editor. Enid Trinkle '50, photography editor; Sally Cahill '50, senior editor; Georgian Davis '51, club editor; Pauline Rosen '51, junior class representative; Claire Ham '50, commuter representative; and Dorothy Waelder, Dolores Heffernan, Nancy Shea, Marjorie Mackintosh, and Helen Valacellis, all '53, Freshman representatives. No sophomore appointment has been made to date...
...Maurice Evans in association with Stephen Mitchell) stars Maurice Evans and Edna Best in a double bill requiring their British accents. As playwrighting, it is not too far from double bilge; Rattigan's study of a defeated schoolmaster is only a shade less routine than his spoofing of ham actors. As entertainment, however, there is a substantial difference between the two. The Browning Version, besides being almost exhilaratingly grim, gives everybody a chance to act; A Harlequinade 'encourages everybody to over-cavort...
...search went on, so many models and photographers sang Lisa's praises that her selection was a foregone conclusion. To research the story, Miss Fremd spent long hours with Lisa. She ate lunches and dinners with her (and teased Lisa because she always ordered smoked ham), rode around in her red convertible while appreciative pedestrians whistled, went swimming on a lonely Long Island beach, and even persuaded Lisa to burlesque some of her high-fashion poses (see cuts...
Along with "White Heat" is "Counter Punch," the Metropolitan's latest Joe Palooka offering. If you enjoy watching a pair of windmills rabbit-punch each other interminably, this is for you. The protagonist of Ham Fisher's fair-haired comic strip is played by one Joe Kirkwood Jr., who says few words and keeps pretty much to himself. Mr. Kirkwood has recently been in court regarding the alleged paternity of a Worcester girl's small children, and his mindprobably was on other things when he made the movie...