Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Patrick Henry to Disk Jockey Lee ("Three-D Lee-D") Dorris, who last week was hired to plug the candidacy of Cayce L. Pentecost for Public Utilities Commissioner of Tennessee. A sample of Dorris' exposition of Pentecost's merits: "Greetings, all you hep cats, gators, lame janes and dream queens. This is Lee D speelin' at you about a real gone cat from Goneville, Cayce L. Pentecost, a real boogie in the know. He's no square from Chicago. Cayce Pentecost is my man's name; by square-dealing he won his fame...
...revue, reduced to slinging for her supper in a hotel scullery. The hero (Robert Cummings) is a famous songwriter-a fiction scarcely supported by the songs attributed to him-who is staying at the hotel. Doris is soon pleasantly crooning "I'm in love" to a silver-lame willow while mechanical stars dot the screen like light bulbs shining through an I.B.M. card; and instead of a slipper, her Prince Charming offers her a Broadway part...
...will swim second on the 400-yard relay team of Whatley, Sandler, and Rapperport. The three event limitation again prevents this from being the varsity's best entry, but Whatley swam the fastest 100 yards of his life at New Haven last week, and the quartet will not be lame...
...point, to win it 11-9. Playing with a concentration he had seldom shown either as an amateur or a pro, Pancho stuck to his big guns and finally won the two-hour match, taking the deciding set 13-11. Next night, hampered by a torn callus and a lame ankle, big Pancho Gonzales nonetheless beat little Pancho Segura, 7-9, 6-4, 6-4. to make his comeback official -and to pocket some well-earned cash...
...Bermuda will be a forerunner of talks with Malenkov. Churchill has been longing for a Big Three chat ever since he was denied Big Four talks. Now the Big Three at least would meet, but under a particularly nullifying circumstance. Laniel will be able to speak only for a lame-duck government which must automatically dissolve when France elects a new President -within ten days to a month after the Bermuda meeting...