Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With prospects for a winning season having increased with wins last week over Williams and Wesleyan, it seems a shame that the varsity squad must play on an unkempt, windswept, sloppy hardpan like the Business School field. Through lacking the tradition which shrouds college football, college soccer, played under decent conditions, could easily prove what a first-rate sport...
...starting halfback line remains intact thus far without any major injuries. Marsh Schwarz, Tony Oberschall, and John Felstiner play close behind the forwards to give them support needed to keep the ball within shooting range...
Mary Stuart offers no end of bravura and brag, of stomp and stealth, as the play rushes from one emotional exclamation point to another. Since the characters never really draw human breath, they never provide the thrills born of real concern. Mary Stuart has clang without resonance, but it is old-fashioned enough to seem novel, and good enough of its kind to be enjoyed...
Having thus forewarned his readers, wealthy, fun-loving Fenwick Keyser, 45, a onetime Baltimore Sun reporter, gave the Page One play to a straight-faced report that County Executive Officer Michael J. Birmingham had been jailed "on charges of treason and sabotage." Listing other so-called "deviationists" and "disloyal leaders," the Union News ran pictures of two county officials under the caption WANTED. In an adjoining column Editor Keyser reported solemnly that a well-known Baltimore County contractor had "committed suicide by jumping into one of his own cement mixers" and had become "an integral part of the new wing...
...framed upon the wall. Some people, she points out to Benjy, lack her advantages. The most conspicuous lackee is Daddy Ballou, a monosyllabic TV repairman. Daddy usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten out poor Daddy. Speaking in the third person, as he sometimes does, Benjy promises that when he goes to school...