Word: peacock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stan Peacock, whose first-period accuracy helped undermine Coach Barclay's defensive set-up, led the Blues with a game total of 21 points. Tom Redden, the other starting guard...
...previous Arena dogfights, Crimson guards have kept him down to 13 and 14 points, and, if they can do it again tonight, another thrill-a-minute affair seems probable. HARVARD YALE Rockwell f Lavelli Gannon t Nadherny Prior c Joyce McCurdy g Redden Brady g Peacock...
Harry Truman kept smiling, but his wife was tuckered out. Gamely they had pumped more than 1,200 hands of foreign diplomats, U.S. Cabinet officers, Congressmen and their wives. Last week's annual White House diplomatic reception-the second since the war-was, as usual, peacock-splendid, stiff with protocol and hardly hilarious...
...young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E Flat Major; Griffes' The White Peacock; Siegmeister's Symphony. Guest: British Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...