Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many a matron has taken to boots, oblivious of the fact that in them most women over 40 look like Captain Hook, not Peter Pan. On the other hand, young women-including some well-heeled, style-conscious teen-agers (see BOOKS)-have jumped in with both feet. A special favorite is the high-heeled, calf-topping black leather model with the rakish, lady-lion-tamer look. Its teetering heels may make it as impractical as a boot can get-certainly not the thing for fording slushy gutters or negotiating icy pavements. A lack of ice and slush makes the high...
...Premier of the Third Republic, Pierre-Maurice Rou-vier, casually made his mistress' husband a Legionnaire because "of the special services rendered to me by his wife." Once when he was having bad luck fishing, legend has it, Author Henri Murger (La Vie de Boheme) baited his hook with his scarlet ribbon and said: "Now they are sure to bite. This is something everyone likes...
...superiority under the boards (46 rebounds to 30) enabled the Crimson to race ahead 52-41 with 10 minutes to play. At that point the Huskies took over. As Harvard began to throw the ball away, Husky forward Fred Ryan sank two foul shots, a hook from the key, and a tip-in after a fast break...
...this Crimson quintet has poise, talent, and guts. They never gave up. McClung, who had 29 points for the night, collected a three-point play and a pair of hook shots underneath the basket. Aided by an errant Wesleyan pass and a traveling violation, Harvard shaved the margin...
Died. Charles Ruffin Hook, 83, longtime (1930-59) president and chairman of Armco Steel Corp., the nation's fourth-largest steel company (1962 sales: $918 million), who married the boss's daughter and ran the company with such a velvet glove (the industry's first eight-hour day, first group insurance plan) that to this day fewer than half of Armco's 34,000 employees belong to the steelworkers' union; of cancer; in Garrison...