Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since that cold Nov. 18 when she first showed up in her seventh-grade classroom wearing a pair of corduroy slacks, Shirley Richardson, 14, of Thompsonville, Conn., has been leading a lonely life. Principal Ernest White told her that slacks were against the rule, and that unless she returned to skirts, she would have to sit in a room by herself. Shirley's parents protested that as a result of an operation four years ago, Shirley's legs needed special protection against the cold. The principal asked to see a doctor's affidavit, but never...
...Great Sebastians (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse) are a pair of ham vaudevillians with a wobbly mind-reading act. They also find themselves in a wobbly situation, performing publicly in Communist Prague the day Jan Masaryk dies, and snappishly ordered to perform privately. But perhaps it should first be said that the Sebastians are played, in gay holiday style, by the Lunts. Otherwise, their being ordered by a Communist general to read the minds of his supper guests and their getting nastily involved in political intrigue might create an impression of something grim and arouse hopes of something gripping...
...acts of Studio One's production of Fair Play, the Army got an unmerciful going over. James Gregory, a sad-sack private accused of murdering a girl, is defended by idealistic young Lieut. Dewey Martin, who is soon convinced that his client is being framed by a pair of villainous MPs. The court-martial is as farcically one-sided as if it were being run by Judge Lynch himself. When Martin protests, he is placed under barracks arrest. In the last five minutes of the play, this monstrous parody of justice turns out to have been only a bureaucratic...
...starting line will be made up of O'Malley, Bob Cleary, and Lyle Guttu, and the starting defense pair will be Dan Ullyot and John Copeland...
Several days later, Heckscher bowed to Azam Khan in the first round of the National Open Squash Racquets Tournament by a 3-1 score. The one game which he won proved to be the only ray of hope for the United States squash delegation as Pakistan's famed pair of brothers. Hashim and Azam Khan, swept through the tournament with only this one game to mar an otherwise perfect record against all but each other...