Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell last fall, after making, he claims, a gentleman's agreement with Blunden Backer Dr. Enid Starkie to limit the number of nominating signatures for each candidate. "She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with 301 names for Blunden to Bowra's 36 for Lowell. "She'll be standing on Magdalen Bridge selling rosettes next." Replied Starkie, who lectures in French: "I think a contest is fun. I love a battle." She admitted she had not read Poet Blunden...
Died. Lucius Beebe, 63, fulltime dandy, a Boston banker's son who once wrote that "the trivia of life may be the solution for all the ills of a fretful and feverish world," remained wedded only to elegance, which he took to be his taste in dress (top hat and morning suit), food (champagne and pate), railroads (which he glorified in books and in his private Pullman), and cafe society, whose doings he reported, first for the New York Herald Tribune and later for the San Francisco Chronicle; of a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif...
...that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
...freshman skaters contributed an annihilation of their own earlier in the day. Barry Johnson turned a hat trick and Pete Mueller and Bobby Bauer both tallied twice in a 12-2 romp over Dartmouth...
Jack Garrity turned the hat trick for Harvard, while Paul Althouse and Doug Ferguson scored twice each for Cornell. Dennis McCullough had two for the Crimson...