Word: pipering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman Hammond, 20, had been suspended in February for flying his Piper Super Cruiser without school authorization to a Mount Holyoke College dance. (After a bit of careless navigation, he overshot the dance and crashed in a New Hampshire cornfield.) More misadventures with an unauthorized car, including a trip to Florida, led to his expulsion. Only a few days before the riot, he had buzzed the campus in his plane and sprinkled it with empty beer cans...
...OTTO A. PIPER Princeton Theological Seminary
Chief judge will be Edward J. Dimock, U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of N.Y. Lawyers Earle W. Carr and Wilson C. Piper will also serve as judges...
...greatest problem in the script was apparently to keep the lovers apart long enough to have a movie. Piper Laurie's sense of guilt for her mother's death in childbirth is the shaky scaffolding that holds her un-swerving love for her degenerate brother who hates the gambler. Under her brother's influence, Laurie marries an old friend she does not love, who later turns out to be an embezzler and a wife deserter. A neuroses shedding climax in front of her mother's portrait releases Laurie's guilt, and minutes later she winds up safely abroad a riverboat...
...Mark Fallon, the therapeutic gambler who gives a rapid fire Freudian analysis between kisses to Angelica Durean (Piper Laurie), Tyrone Power is insufferable enough to have even his love exclaim, "you egotistical ass." Having Piper Laurie around is never unpleasant, but if you come to see her act you had better stay at home. Probably the most creditable actress is Julia Adams, whose unrequited love of Fallon has moments of convincing tenderness...