Word: matchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than piquant sauce at a histrionic banquet for two of the theater's most exquisitely mannered scenery chewers: Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman, who played all four of the show's principal parts (TIME, Nov. 5, 1956). Obviously, the movie people could not hope to match that, so they set out to do better-by providing their picture with one of the screen's most gifted young directors, Delbert (Bachelor Party) Mann, and with what is surely the year's most brilliantly glittering cast. For the main roles they hired Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt...
When the Australian press tired of chronicling the Kramer hassle, it turned loose all its superlatives on a lanky kid of 18 that Kramer has been grooming for the Cup matches. Brought along chiefly for experience, Earl ("Butch") Buchholz Jr. took hold under Kramer's tutelage, put some power into his scrambling game, upset both Anderson and the U.S.'s Alex Olmedo in the New South Wales championships, and went to the finals before losing to Cooper. Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "A tennis prodigy." Headlined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial: THIS U.S. BOY COULD TAKE DAVIS...
AIRCRAFT EXCHANGE, INC. will be set up as a clearinghouse to match buyers and sellers of the 4,000 piston planes that are expected to go on the block in next five years. The founder, former American Airlines Executive Robert Helliesen, hopes exchange will also be able to put potential buyers in touch with lending agencies for necessary financing...
Sophomores Lake and Smith, in their first varsity contests, were singled out for special praise after the match, which the Crimson completed in near-record time, needing only 29 games, two over the limit, to overwhelm the struggling Cardinals...
Another rationale for the move was given by David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House. Owen explained that "the Masters of the older Houses hope they will be able to match the glory of Quincy and the Leverett towers in some humble way." Quincy and the Leverett addition offer private bedrooms; Quincy offers built-in refrigerators for each suite, and a "grill" in the basement...