Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the recent February Revolution and the world war that was raging to the west, Moscow in the late winter of 1917 was not a very excited city. Michael Karpovich, a young army officer attached to a government bureau, felt no particular emotion as he walked down the street on a routine errand. When he happened to meet an old friend whom he had not seen for several years, Karpovich was more pleased than surprised. He would have been shocked indeed, had someone told him that this chance meeting would remove him from Russia for the rest of his life...
Ride of the Navajos. His son, William Blankenship Jr., was 15: a handsome, blond six-footer who played football, did well in Mount St. Michael Academy, wanted to go to the Air Force Academy. He was walking to an evening movie with a friend when a gang of leather-jacketed toughs called the Navajos swarmed around, yelling: "Do you live around here? Aren't you in the Golden Guineas?" The Navajos and Golden Guineas are rival gangs; young Bill Blankenship belonged to neither. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said...
Compromise. In Chicago, Michael Korzen, 42, complained in divorce court that his wife's weight had increased from 127 to 190 lbs., asked that she reduce to 125 lbs., agreed, after the-judge suggested that he was asking too much, to take her back...
...perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon masters her urbanity and by the end is consummately cruel. When the Prince, Keith Gardiner, is singing, he is fine, but otherwise he is awkward, as is the King, Michael Pollatsek. Pollatsek, however, is supposed to be funny. One only wonders why he adopted the manner of a melodrama villain. The Fairy Godmother's Oriental shuffle is likewise a puzzlement...
...Michael J. Cambern '55 of Winthrop House took the third prize of $100 with "Les Illuminations: A Study of Form and Color in Rimbaud's Poetry...