Word: lawrason
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...figures, to puppets "that you were supposed to laugh at," who might have been "real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys." Unfortunately on stage, the "real" fell rather flat. Effeminate Dale Harding (Roger Harkenrider) flips his hands a little too obviously: Billy Bibbitt (Lawrason Driscoll) undergoes a rather facile transformation from stuttering virgin to surly stud...
Holder of Yale's new T. Lawrason Riggs Professorship in Religion, a $500,000 chair set up by anonymous alumni in honor of a longtime Yale Catholic chaplain, is Stephen G. Kuttner, now at Catholic University in Washington, the nation's only lay professor of canon law and a model of the small-c catholic manner. The son of a Jewish mother, German-born Lawyer Kuttner, 56, grew up as a Lutheran, became a Catholic after fleeing the Nazis in 1933. He learned canon law as a refugee researcher in the Vatican library, became one of the world...
...game was not pallid; Yale received 13 penalties six for one burly defenseman Lawrason Sayre, and Harvard got nine. The final game left the varsity with an exactly even 6 to 6 record. But all but one of the wins were foregone conclusions, while the team to beat--Yale, Dartmouth, Williams--were not beaten, But wait till next year, Bill Harkness...
...department of music. While still a student he had a musical, See America First, produced on Broadway. It contained one Porter song which still makes middle-aged sentimentalists blink over their highballs: I've a Shooting Box in Scotland (words by Porter's good friend T. Lawrason Riggs, longtime Catholic chaplain at Yale). In 1917 Porter joined the French Foreign Legion, going to the wars with a tiny portable piano on his back...
...traveled 25,000 miles preaching amity. Newest N. C. J. C. goodwill stunt is for a team to "bury a hatchet" in public, as was done in Seattle when Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago wielded a spade while Presbyterian Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter of Berkeley, Calif, and Rev. Thomas Lawrason Riggs, famed chaplain of Yale's Catholic Club, deposited a small hatchet in the cold earth...