Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will remain on the neighboring campus until the final return trip at midnight. Unless others are able to persuade their dates of the desirability of an evening in Cronin's before the bus leaves Lowell House, at 6:45 p.m., the one couple will have the run of the bus on the two intermediate trips...
...will return to Wellesley in time for the Friday night midnight deadline and pick up Harvard men there...
...Midnight Man. Now, in the wild glare of series fame, fans discovered that Dusty was a ballplayer right out of a book: Ring Lardner's Busher, magnificently self-assured, not one bit abashed by the big leagues, thoroughly convinced that he and his big bat could win a World Series by themselves...
...after a tour in the Navy, he began kicking around in the minor leagues. He started low-with the Hall Brothers' Dairy team-and moved up slowly. He had a busher's habit of muffing flies and missing curfews. "Dusty," said a careful friend, "was a midnight man in a 9 o'clock town." It took him six years to show signs of settling down. Then he was ready for the Giants, and 1954 was obviously his year...
...father sent him to Shattuck Military Academy-"the military asylum," he still calls it-Marlon tried hard to be a good soldier. The first two years went pretty well. He got parts in two school plays, but in both cases (he played a corpse on the gallows at midnight and an explorer in an Egyptian tomb) it was too dark to tell whether he was really any good. Then, all at once he was expelled. One of the reasons: late one night he emptied a chamberpot out the dormitory window, saw too late that there was somebody passing below...