Word: host
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...premier tax-dodge artist and maverick politician, not only made himself a millionaire but also built the country's second largest party, which now holds 26 of the 179 seats in parliament. Last week, after a 3½-year trial, a Copenhagen court found him guilty on a host of charges involving fraud and tax evasion and directed him to pay $880,000 in fines and back taxes. Glistrup's chief crime: swindling the state out of more than $1 million by exploiting tax loopholes in a scheme so labyrinthine that it took a team of investigators nearly...
Fats played piano like a jovially lavish host, and the evening is like a rollicking party-a "rent party," perhaps, that Harlem Depression phenomenon where guests put a small sum in the household kitty and jazzmen improvised from midnight to dawn. There are 27 numbers in all and they compose an ebullient cantata of urban night music. The audience could almost sing along with Honeysuckle Rose, Mean to Me, Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, and that powerful elegy to black sorrow, Black and Blue...
Teammate Jeff Secrest had even less trouble as he tallied a Crimson victory to the tune of 15-7, 15-6, 15-12. Finally, at the ninth slot, John Fishwick captured the most decisive win of the day as he allowed only 22 points to his Amherst host...
...team concludes its regular season next Sunday when it will host Ithaca College at Watson Rink...
DIED. Bergen Evans, 73, popular, irreverent professor of English at Northwestern University (1932-75) who gained national recognition as a lexicographer and television host; after a long illness; in Highland Park, ILL. After the success of his 1946 book The Natural History of Nonsense, which wittily debunked old wives' tales, Evans became the moderator of two '50s quiz shows, Down You Go and The Last Word, and wrote queries for The $64,000 Question (he was absolved in that show's rigging scandal). Evans was also author of A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage and Dictionary...