Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blowtorch full of Eastman Color and stereophonic sound to get the same reaction. More specifically, a couple of the principals do not quite deliver. Brando as the gambler has a nylon slickness and the right occupational crimp around the eyes. He dances, too, in one wonderful piece of mambo-jumbo, with a kind of animal rapture that moviegoers will want to see more of but he sings in a faraway tenor that sometimes tends to be flat...
...Hartford glibly lists "the diseases that infect the world of painting today" as "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence." He concludes with a call to arms: "Ladies and gentlemen, form your own opinions concerning art . . . and when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business, you will be astonished . . . how fast they will change their tune." At first, Hartford's targets shrugged him off as a crank with money. Newspaper editorials and letters-to-the-editors, plus arty-party chitchat, have shown...
This Friday the Crimson moves to Medford to meet a Tufts nine which has compiled a mediocre 7-9 record so far this season. Jumbo righthander John McGrath, who held the varsity to five hits and only one earned run in a losing effort earlier this season, is expected to hurl for Tufts, against either Andy Ward or Ken Rosano. Top batters for the Jumbos are McGrath, first baseman Dick Murphy, and second sacker Fran O'Brien...
...Crimson defeated Tufts last week by a 3 to 2 score, collecting all its runs on Jumbo errors...
...next inning, Tufts gave the varsity another run--the winning one. The Jumbo shortstop fumbled Bill Cleary's grounder and Matt Botsford followed with a long triple to left-center to drive home Cleary. Botsford thus continued his fine hitting, also collecting a single...