Word: markers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial marker came when Tufts recovered a Crimson fumble and scored in five plays. A minute after the Tufts' kickoff Harvard fumbled again on the 35-yard stripe, and Tufts acknowledegd the gift by crossing the goal in eight more plays. The conversion was good...
Gently as a gnat touching meringue, a blue-and-silver three-seat helicopter last week eased down onto a yellow marker on the White House lawn. Correspondents duly noted the executive mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington...
Failing among other things to fill in where the script leaves off, Dudley House's production of this Broadway success is disappointing almost across the board. Though there are several bits in the performance which seem to be handled with minor competence. Fredrick Marker's direction fails to sustain any pace or rhythm, or to hold the play together in the light of any unified continuity or insight. His production even lacks the basic and most simple elements of stagecraft, failing to recreate the electric atmosphere of a "tragic" court martial in large part because almost none of the cast...
Perhaps the best performance was turned in by Director Marker as Captain Queeg, although supported by some purple passages in the script. However, the show does begin to pick up in the second act, and perhaps could improve in the remainder...
...varsity had to wait until the top of the eighth to score the winning marker, again without the benefit of a hit. After Cleary walked, Simourian tried to sacrifice him to second, but the Cadet first baseman muffed the throw, advancing Cleary to third. Hastings drove him across with a tremendous sacrifice fly to center...