Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intramural sports are as old as the P.T. requirements. Both started in 1919--the former when Isidor Straus '93 donated trophies for the winning intramural teams, and the latter when the University simply decreed that all freshmen must exercise...
...days of the German film industry, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Last Laugh are still well worth seeing, by anybody's standards. Comparing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with American movies, Will Rogers said that the former was frankly about the ravings of two maniacs while the latter was the result of the ravings of director and star...
...while the average Cambridge postman knows very little about Persian messengers or even about Herodotus, it should be fairly obvious from the above quotation that he has something in common with the former and is somewhat in debt to the latter...
...males in the cast give generally the most impressive individual performances, with Bruce MacDonald given highest honors because he cannot only sneer and hop, but sing. Benjamin Neilson, as the other Earl, is not troubled by this latter difficulty, but carries himself well and obscures none of the humor, which is all that counts. The Lord Chancellor, Arthur Waldstein, has an even less prepossessing voice, and occasionally his froggish hops seem uncertain and feeble, but he does manage some of Gilbert's speedier lyrics, all the while conveying a most Chancellorial wizenedness. Perhaps less sure of himself on stage...
Since his youth, White has been interested in hunting and sailing. The latter hobby brought him a commission in the Navy in 1940. After four years in the Atlantic on minesweepers and destroyer escorts, White went to Washington to work for James Forrestal in smoothing the transition to a peace-time Navy. Discharged as a Commander in 1945, he remains a keen salt water sailor, piloting his fifty-foot German-built yawl "Blue Water" through the coves of Long Island Sound "as often as possible." As a weekend skipper, White has won several races, although he lost his mainsail...