Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the college presidents attending this conference are Leonard Carmichael of Tufts, Miss Ada Comstock of Radcliffe, Roswell Ham of Mt. Holyoke, J. E. Park of Wheaton, Henry Wriston of Brown, and Miss Mildred McAfee of Wellesley...
After a lecture in Pasadena Mercury-&-Marsman Orson Welles (see p. 58), minus his recent beard, was asked: "Is it possible to be both a great actor and a ham?" Said he, after a pause...
Died. Everest George Sewell, 65, mayor of Miami; of heart disease; in Miami. Looking and dressing like a ham actor, he was a Georgia-born booster who built the first store in Miami, launched the city as a winter resort by a $3,000 publicity campaign in 1915; served four terms as mayor. Defeated in 1937, he resumed office last year after the opposition had been recalled because of graft scandal...
...know Harvard better, and hear people he never thought existed. And in the bright blue, University-donated studio space in Shephard Hall, as time wears on and the Network gathers experience, talent in radio technical work will leave the lonely room where the ham tinkers, and nobody pays attention...
...part (ad libs included) when hired; if he had to rehearse, he was considered a fraud. Though dozens of notables like Joe Jefferson, Mrs. Fiske, Maude Adams, Otis Skinner at one time or another appeared in Tom Shows, good actors almost always flopped in them. It took a ham to bring home the hokum...