Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impassioned sports buff, who founded the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936, built a $350,000 museum in 1948 to enshrine relics of sports heroes (e.g., the shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time handing out medals to successful musclemen, encouragement to unknowns (the young Baseballers Jackie Robinson and Ralph Kiner, Trackman Mel Patton...
...from 3 in. to more than 8 ft.-are on show this week in Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery. Among them are some surprisingly delightful forms, e.g., a small dancing figure whose facial features show up on the sole of its upraised foot, a 6-ft. 3-in. Palm Tree topped with a suitable bird with Miró hieroglyphics scrawled on the richly glazed bark, some bug-eyed figurines that look as if they had just swallowed the pits with the cherries. Most successful are those that, like the 20-in. bull's head, derive their texture...
Located some 14 miles north of West Palm Beach, Salhaven was named after U.I.U. President Sal B. Hoffmann, who has spent $2,500,000 of his union's welfare-fund profits to build a 634-acre community that will eventually cost $5,000,000, house 500 union members and their families in 240 air-conditioned, completely furnished cottages and ten apartment lodges. Since Salhaven's residents will live primarily on their union pensions and social-security checks, they will have to pay only $50 a month rent for a cottage with one bedroom, $12 more for each additional...
...their professors with problems raised by the lecture, if they were not bogged down in the stultifying task of transcribing lecture notes. Since lectures often serve as a major source of information in courses, the student feels an obligation to "get everything down." The result is an aching, sweaty palm, quite often a muddled idea of the points in the lecture, and an hour of thoughtless stenography. At the end of an hour of furious scribbling, it is virtually impossible for most students to collect their thoughts enough to ask an intelligent question. Even if a relevant question does occur...
Died. Victor Young, 56, composer who wrote the scores for more than 300 films (Around the World in So Days, The Quiet Man, Shane), turned out song hits (Sweet Sue, Ghost of a Chance) on the side; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...