Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first suspicion that Nye was not going to do his usual roaring came as the delegates considered Leader Hugh Gaitskell's favorite proposal to switch from "oldfashioned nationalization" to a scheme for state buying of shares in key industries (TIME, July 29). Bevan, a longtime and passionate advocate of nationalization, sat impassively on the platform as old-line Socialists jeered Gaitskell from the floor. "Sheer capitalism," yelled a delegate. "I'd better take off me boots and put on me spats," said a quarry worker from the midlands. Asked old (72) Manny Shin well, grizzled orator from...
...Every Boy's Annual. There he found a description of an intricate cipher invented by Sir Francis Bacon. Already convinced that Bacon was Shakespeare, Donnelly set out to prove that Sir Francis used this cipher in writing the plays. Through an elaborate series of manipulations involving key page numbers, word counts and "root numbers," Donnelly finally "deciphered" such statements as "Seas ill (Cecil) said that More low (Marlowe) or Shak'st spurre (Shakespeare) never writ a word of them," convinced himself that Bacon had written the plays to conceal "the inner history of his times, in cipher...
...decision to use the Freshman Union lounges as an infirmary came after a meeting of Health Services officials with masters of the Houses, key members of the House staffs, and representatives of the Office of the Freshman Dean. Farnsworth indicated that they had temporarily set aside plans to use House entries for the care of patients...
...Health Services has almost finished inoculating key University personnel, and will begin injecting students as soon as regular supplies of vaccine begin arriving "We will start arbitrarily, with a big block of students," Farnsworth stated...
...Patti lent her big, plain voice to the color-drenched proceedings, she was as pretty and wholesome as a milkmaid. The new George Gobel-Eddie Fisher songfest was not exactly the "wonderful show" Eddie called it, but shy, impish Lonesome George again proved himself the master of the minor key-even when delivering a monologue plugging NBC color. Of all the new musicals, the best was the simplest: The Lux Show (replacing the old Lux Theater), with blonde, willowy Rosemary Clooney. Whether delivering barrelhouse or blues, Songstress Clooney's voice has a distinctive cello quality that makes her refreshingly...