Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society. The scene where father participates in an exhibition of mass calisthenics, and drops his pants in the act, is a hilarious bit of nonsense that is somehow brought off without dropping the mood of the film at the same time. "Goodness," says mother, as father's pants hang about his knees and the spectators roar, "I must remember to fix those...
...seen a man killed in a riot, is disenchanted with the dangers of putting her ideal of freedom into practice, has fallen out of love and is escaping to Europe. "Where do people like us belong?" she cries. "Not with the whites screaming to hang onto white supremacy. Not with the blacks-they don't want us. So where?" But even as she leaves, she knows that she will return and that she has "accepted disillusion as a beginning rather than...
During an age when distrust and hatred hang over mention of the word Russia, when investigation into Communist activities have descended on American government, education and churches, when the nickname of the Cincinnati baseball team is changed, a group of scholarly men, working out of dark offices on Dunster Street are heading the study of modern Russia...
Professionally, the saddest men in sports are U.S. football coaches, and among them none can match Notre Dame's tearful Frank Leahy. Each fall, his gloomy Gaelic laments hang over South Bend, Ind. like a thick and salty fog. This year, Notre Dame, with 20 battle-tested regulars on hand, looked its strongest since 1949, was ranked as the nation's No. 1 team in preseason polls. But Leahy was miserable. "I'll be amazed," he moaned, "if we make a first down all season." Last week, at Norman, Okla., Notre Dame's rangy Irishmen (including...
...Louis, Browns fans (home attendance this year: 311,000) reacted to fresh talk of the club's transfer to another city by belatedly crowding the ballpark, hanging Owner Bill Veeck in effigy. At week's end they heard that the Browns might not move after all; meeting in Manhattan, American League club owners rejected the most likely city, Baltimore, for the second time. ¶ In Boston, the Red Sox's Ted Williams, who returned from Korea too late to be considered for American League batting honors, still managed to hang up a personal record in 37 games...