Word: langdon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FRANK H. LANGDON...
Most of the masters of silent comedy -Chaplin, Langdon and Keaton-were clowns in the Continental tradition. Lloyd, a collateral descendant of Horatio Alger heroes, is the clown of the U.S. middle class. His pictures are warmhearted parodies of old-fashioned American manners & morals...
...Wisconsin's centennial year there are 18,623 students enrolled at Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...
...pocket, a student could take his pick last week of an art exhibit, a performance of Girl Crazy by the Wisconsin Players, a dance in soft-lighted Great Hall, a concert by the Marching Band, a community sing, a movie (Odd Man Out) or bowling. On Langdon Street, the Greeks were having their final white-tie-&-tails flings before Christmas vacation...
Harper's ace pitcher, Langdon Clay, should be ready to go today. Behind the plate will be Chuck Kenny, filling in for Web Durant, who saw Varsity action over the weekend while Armie Essayen was ailing with a pulled leg muscle. The rest of the infield will include Bud Gibbs, Fred Dunn, Hal Moffle, and John Chase, Dunn, of West Hartford, Connecticut and Lowell House, was recently elected captain of the Jayvee nine...