Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifty other girls surrounded her dressed like monks and witches and jesters and knights, and some were even dressed like girls. Down in the pit there were more girls, playing piano, flute and trumpet. Off in a corner, hiding behind a bass and a drum set, were the two lone boys in the production, vastly outnumbered and probably terrified. The Wellesley Junior Show, a combination of a female Hasty Pudding show and a summer camp skit, was going strong...
...Milwaukee.The Giants lost too, and next day Sandy Koufax clinched the pennant, beating the Braves 4-1 and getting his name in the record book still another time-by tying the modern National League record for victories in one season (26) by a lefthander. The Braves' lone run was actually an achievement of sorts: it was the first scored off Koufax in his last six victories. In 78 innings, Los Angeles pitchers had allowed only four earned runs; the combined earned-run average of the Dodgers' pitching staff was a gaudy...
...final period, falling to control play as it had done in the previous two periods. Williams captain Budge Upton, a quick and energetic center forward who played an outstanding game for the losers, caught the Crimson fullbacks napping in the opening moments of the fourth quarter and scored the lone Williams goal with an assist from inside Bill Blanchard...
...growing threat posed by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who last year suddenly expanded the political activities of his vigorous People's Action Party from Singapore to the mainland. P.A.P. campaigned for nine seats on the mainland, and, though it captured only one, the lone victory was warning enough that the P.A.P. might begin to lure large numbers of Malay voters away from the Tunku's United Malay Nationalist Organization. Stumped Kampongs. Noisiest of the Malay "ultras" who demanded harsh measures against the Chinese was the secretary-general of the Tunku's U.M.N.O., Jaafar...
...STOVE-UP COWBOY'S STORY by James Emmit McCauley. 76 pages. Southern Methodist University. $5. "I was borned on the 14th day of August 1873, in Anderson County, Lone Star State. My parents be poor like Job's turkey. But my first memory was to ride a stick horse and my first wishes and desires was to be a wild and woolly cowboy." A wild and woolly cowboy that little boy became, and many years later, encouraged by Folk Singer John Lomax, the old wrangler rustled up a stub pencil to scribble off the story of "what...