Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manila. When the Japanese attacked the Philippines, Lewin, no man to duck a fight, enlisted and was captured on Bataan. At the Cabanatuan prison camp he proved his organizing ability by setting up a food delivery from outside that kept the P.W.s from starvation and the Japanese guards in pin money...
...Harvard team made a clean sweep in the heavies, led by Pete Stanley, a junior who managed to wrestle only once last season. He crushed his opponent 8 to 0; and Dan Leary, a senior newcomer to Crimson competition, made the only pin of the meet in the second round. Leary's showing in the 177-pound class makes him a man to watch later in the season...
...life. Lydia enrolled in a dancing school in 1948, two years later was among the few chosen from hundreds of applicants for the Folies chorus, has been there ever since. Says Lydia: "It's not the Warsaw Opera Ballet, but I love it." Asked where she would pin her Legion ribbon, Lydia answered: "I'll wear it at work only for a State visit to the Folies-which is unlikely...
...style of this Christmas celebration, but hard to find fault with the sound. There are too many wailing choristers and glutinous strings in the standard selections (White Christmas, Jingle Bells), but the 1,453 bells of the Carillon Americana brazen it out with a clarity and resonance sure to pin any true stereo...
...Rocky finally caught up with the official welcome from an incongruous dance band (hired by the sea-captain husband of the movies' retired Marion Davies), from a corporal's guard of Cal-Rock boosters, and from National Committeeman Edward Shattuck, who wore a silver and blue pin with the word "Nixon" etched...