Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas Macaulay and a host of lesser chroniclers have left one terrible night in India indelibly stamped upon the world's memory. It was that night in June 1756, when 123 prisoners, many of them British soldiers, died of suffocation in "the black hole of Calcutta," a lockup in Fort William, 18 ft. long by 15ft. wide-an outrage for which the Nawab Sirajud-daula was later put to death by Clive of India...
...Debate Council, as host, did not enter a team, but Robert H. King '57 upset the defending champion, Robert Smith of Dartmouth in the Impromptu Speaking Division. In the finals at the banquet Saturday impromptu finalists gave five minute off the cuff speeches on current news topics drawn at random...
Dartmouth, Yale, Army, and host Cornell are the teams for the Crimson to beat, but Penn, Princeton, and Navy all have one or two good performers. Columbia and Brown are also-rans...
...Debate Council--as host--will not itself enter a team, but George M. Fredrickson '56 and Robert H. King '57 will compete in the impromptu speaking division...
Loosed from their contractual shackles during the great television scare, and thirsty for the taste of tax relief, a host of famous actors have saddled up their "horseback corporations" and gone storming after creative control of U.S. film production. They have won an amazing measure of it. Jimmy Stewart made the breach, and Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper and a score of others have followed. Almost two-thirds of film production at Warner and Columbia is now in the hands of independents. Paramount and Fox are yielding to the trend. Even rich...