Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Offhand, the picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned in the Rahway River. His mother said that he was always slipping away to watch the river. "It utterly fascinated him," she said...
Michael B. Rothenberg '49, chairman of the Student Council Committee on International Activity, working in conjunction with Peter O. Ways '49 and Julio Vielman '49, has made it possible for foreign students to secure vacation accommodations in Massachusetts homes...
Greece's Prince Peter, 39-year-old anthropologist (and cousin of King Paul), was still in good shape after sampling the native customs of Manhattan. In the U.S. for a lecture tour, the Prince and his pretty Princess Irene submitted themselves to a subway ride and hot dogs at a Times Square stand-up counter. They then returned to the Ritz-Carlton...
...field, at least, the Russians were still ace-high with Americans last week. Billboard magazine reported that their classical composers led the U.S. hit parade in 1947. And the most popular of them all was Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Victor listed his Nutcracker Suite, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Violin Concerto among its top best-selling classical albums of the year, and Nutcracker was one of Columbia's big sellers...
...remaining members of the permanent class committee, listed according to the number of votes they polled, include Joseph Anthony Lewis, of New York City and Lowell House; Chester Middlebrook Pierce, of Glen Cove, New York and Lowell House; John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., of Dorchester; Harry Peter Haveles, of Roxbury; Jay Lawrence Fialkow, of Brookline and Adams House; Robert Stanley Leventhal, of Newton and Adams House...