Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home Flown. In Milwaukee, caught robbing a beer depot because he wanted to give his family "a nice Christmas" after cops had sought him for 16 months, Jail Escapee Richard Heinz admitted that he hid out for the entire time in his wife's apartment, left only in the late evening for burglary forays, avoided alerting neighbors by ducking windows, teaching his three children to call him "Cowboy" instead of daddy, hid in a closet whenever cops, sheriff's deputies or the FBI searched the place...
...recent sneak snowfalls has transformed Harvard Square into a morass; an oily, black slush is waging an all-out war against man, and winning. What was once snow now looks like low-grade mud, feels like cold porridge, and acts with a diabolical intelligence. This Cambridge variety preys on nice elderly ladies with full shopping bags and weak ankles, lying in wait to capitalize upon the slightest mis-step. Faint yips are all that remain of a dog who attempted to cross the Square; six Volkswagens so far have disappeared into Massachusetts Avenue; and a small child who slipped from...
...Louis, where he is attending the NCAA coaches convention, Jordan insisted that there was no ill feeling between himself and anyone at Harvard. He wished "the best of success" to whom ever will succeed him, and commented, "I enjoyed working with many nice people at Harvard, especially the football squad...
...Publicly, he has had no word of the reason for his dismissal. It is unfortunate but necessary now that that the Corporation tell him, and us, why he has been fired. He said rather bravely, in his St. Louis hotel room last night, that there were a lot of nice people at Harvard and he like working here. Whether he believes this doesn't matter; but it is important that this successor believe it. Rumors that Josh Williams will get the post seem to imply that Harvard wants to keep its football small-time and doesn't mind...
...nice little big-city fairy tale: a poor but pretty working girl falls for the boss's son after finding a foundling that nobody will believe is not her own. What the story badly needs is a group of skilled comedians. Eddie Fisher, no actor, has a pleasant voice, and Debbie Reynolds has a pleasant face. The main trouble is that Director Norman Taurog has dished up his soufflé with a fairly heavy hand...