Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wining poems will be read by their authors on August 14, following the regular Wednesday evening poetry reading. These Wednesday series, held in the Forum Room of Lamont Libary, will feature such well-known poets as Martin Halpern, Desmond O'Grady, Leon Barron, and William Ferguson...
...tall, she had to start as a crone if she had any hope of becoming an ingenue. She did anything at all, including a production of The Thirteenth God in which the 13 gods onstage regularly outnumbered the audience. Meanwhile, she checked hats at Lindy's, Leon & Eddie's, the Vanderbilt Hotel, the Old Rumanian Restaurant and Luchow...
...honored custom among ballplayers to brag loudest about what they do worst. So a pitcher who manages to beat out an infield roller struts around gloating, "Man! I really put the wood to it that time!" And Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels confides: "I'm one of the best defensive outfielders in the game." At 29, Wagner may not be the game's worst gloveman (unlike Yogi Berra, he has never let a descending fly ball conk him on the head), but the tag of "Butcher" has stuck with him through three ball clubs and five...
...Peace Corps volunteers, Berlitz teaches by what it calls The Method. The system was devised by Charles Berlitz's mustachioed grandfather, Maximilian, who came out of the Black Forest 85 years ago to start a language business in Providence, went on to engage such temporary teachers as Leon Trotsky and James Joyce. Using The Method, native-born instructors today speak in class only the language they teach, forbid English, repeat constantly, and guide befuddled beginners with props and pictures. Nelson Rockefeller learned his Spanish that way, and Douglas Dillon perfected his French. Academic critics charge that The Method...
Quincy: David Josiah Ballard, Benjamin A. Batson, Jr., Joseph E. Clements, Richard D. Copaken, Leonard Lloyd Eliman, Stephen R. Fenster, Todd A. Gitlin, Michael E. Goldberg, Leon I. Jacobson, David E. Levy, Roy M. MacLeod, II, Joseph P. Newhouse, David H. Sohmalz, Charles A. Stevenson, Brian A. Thompson, Richard E. Wilson...