Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest mistake." At six, he had performed his way into St. Anthony's choir, rose to be a Wise Man in the Christmas play. His first stage lines: "Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom." Every week after school, Fred went to Keith's to see the new show and pick up jokes and routines. He even began making up a few of his own. An early Allen (from algebra class): "Let X equal my father's signature...
...wasn't long before Fred started thinking: "What the hell's a juggler? A pair of hands. And you never get anywhere working with your hands." Since people insisted on laughing at him, why not be a comic and get somewhere-maybe even as high as the Keith circuit? Fred changed his billing to "Freddie James -The World's Worst Juggler," and headed for New York. The next year was a time of flea bags, dime dinners and very little work. After that, he traveled-and gained comic breadth. On a tour of Australia he developed...
Most controversial subject at the Cleveland meeting: sympathectomy-cutting the "sympathetic" nerves to reduce high blood pressure. Dr. Keith Grimson of Duke University, who sometimes cuts out the entire sympathetic nervous system, said that it helped in most of his cases and probably would be effective for a third of all hypertensive patients. Others thought that it seldom did much permanent good...
George P. Denny '09, Walter S. Franklin '06, Robert S. Gross '19, Francis W. Hatch '19, Amory Houghton '21, R. Keith Lane '22, Jacob J. Kaplan '08, Dr. Oliver L. Loring '26,Thomas H. Mahoney '06, J Lawrence Pool '28, Clarence B. Randall '12, Joseph P. Sprang, Jr., '15, Lawrence Terry '22, George Whitney...
...elected were: Thomas H. Beale '46, Keith D. Fowler '46, David d. Harrower '45, and Thaxter Swan...