Word: martine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many dreams of adventure, it began in a college bull session. John Armstrong of suburban Belleville, N.J. used to talk things over with Yves Tommy-Martin, a Fulbright scholar from France, while both were students at Amherst College. They continued to talk of one big adventure before settling down to careers when Armstrong turned up in Paris on his own Fulbright to do research in Chinese literature at the Sorbonne. Soon, they had enlisted two more companions-another Frenchman, Jean Pillu, 25, and another American, Donald Shannon, 28, of Milwaukee. Their ambition: to drive the 8,500 road miles...
...rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush in The Nun's Story." The advance sale has already passed...
Even though Jed Fitzgerald and Jack Benjamin were out with injuries, the varsity gave what Coach Bill McCurdy called "a representative performance." Strong efforts by Mark Mullin, Ralph Perry, and Eddie Martin were the bright spots on an otherwise gloomy afternoon...
Mullin and Perry came in a stride apart in 20th and 21st places, respectively. On the tough, hilly Van Cortlandt course, both ran 26:47 for the five-mile distance. Martin was the Crimson's third finisher, taking 34th...
Dick Slansky was five places behind Martin in 39th position, and Tony Field, scoring for the first time this fall, came in 46th. The varsity's other two contesttants, Don Kirkland and Wes Hildreth, were 58th and 65th. 67 of the 68 starters completed the course...