Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through it all, Swart, a onetime Hollywood bit-player cowboy who towers 6 ft. 7 in., managed a perpetual wan smile, and by the time he left for home the hue and cry had died down, even if no one was happy that the Queen's representative in South Africa should be a Boer with a pronounced anti-British bias (based on childhood memories of being herded into a British prison camp with his mother), dedicated to making his country a republic and taking it out of the Commonwealth. The Labor Party's executive committee last week passed...
...What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face of an all but preordained intellectual stalemate, was a greater emotional leverage, a more vibrant dramatic charge. Rex Harrison is a top actor and Peter Brook a top director. But whether it is the part's fault or the player's, the general is not an expressive enough figure. And whether it is the production's fault or the play's, The Fighting Cock needs both more thrust and more evocativeness, a right blending of the aromatic and the astringent. A mood induced by Rolf Gerard...
Amplification. In Milwaukee, Llewellyn M. Culbert stole a record player from a department store, was arrested after he went back to have the machine repaired...
...prize for the quickest match of the evening, however, went to Peter Smith, who managed to complete his first game while losing only a single. On the whole, the entire team played quickly; and several spectators were still arriving as the last Crimson player left the courts...
...National Football League (selecting team: Los Angeles), Halfback Billy Cannon, 22, Louisiana State's sprinting strongman (6 ft. 1 in., 207 lbs., 100 yds. in 9.4 sec.) completed his sweep of football's two highest honors by winning the Heisman Memorial Trophy as "the outstanding player...