Word: juggler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshmen will be entertained by Hugh Shepley, a juggler, and Jerry Alch '54, comedian, on the stage of Sanders Theatre. The customary beer-drinking contest will complete the program...
...other Smoker developments, the Committee announced its local entertainment selections. Performers named include: Tom Lehrer 6G, planist and singer; the Krokodiloes, a singing ensemble from the Hasty Pudding Club; the Wellesley Widows, an eight-girl singing group; Hugh Shepley, juggler; and Jerry Alch '54, comedian. James A. Austrian '56 will serve as student master of ceremonies...
...horse, Crown studied the balance sheet of the bankrupt Rock Island railroad. Against the advice of the road's own lawyer, he bought $4,000,000 worth of defaulted bonds, exchanged them for 100,000 shares of common and preferred stock when the Rock Island was reorganized. Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young had exactly the same idea; he had picked up 250,000 shares, and wanted the Rock Island as a link in his projected transcontinental rail system...
...other Post exploit equaled its exposure of Charles Ponzi, the foreign-exchange juggler of 1920 whose glib tongue talked Bostonians out of millions. City Editor Eddie Dunn, who got his facts from Ponzi's disgruntled pressagent, scooped the city with the news that Ponzi was actually a Canadian ex-convict. His story pricked the bubble and started Ponzi to jail...
...Dempsey punch on U.S. keyboards. Said Leon Fleisher, who has been playing quietly in Europe for two years: "Music in America is becoming a rat race. What all the towns . . . want these days on one program is a team of four pianos, a fiddler, a ballet dancer, and a juggler...