Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman, who once threatened to punch Washington Post Musicritic Paul Hume in the nose after Hume hinted that Daughter Margaret's voice was maybe not operatic, went in for some critic's art himself. Reviewing a record album (The Confederacy, Columbia SL-220, $10) for The Saturday Review, Critic Truman found its songs and readings "excellent." After that, Truman happily digressed to one of his favorite pastimes-a folksy War-Between-the-States history lesson, second-generation style. "When I listened to the record I could see [Confederate General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed...
Under way first, the N.C.A.A. tournament picked up momentum as the University of San Francisco's defensive experts (TIME, Feb. 14) uncorked a high-scoring punch and flattened West Texas State 89-66. In the next round the Dons beat Utah 83-71. In the East, at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, La Salle College's defending champions set a new tournament record as they smothered West Virginia 95-61 under a hail of last-half baskets...
Harvard Hall was comparatively peaceful during the nineteenth century when it was host to lectures, exhibitions, and Commencement dinners. But once a year seniors recalled the old times when they entertained incoming freshmen with their knowledge and punch. According to James Russell Lowell, a "foreign admixture" overpowered whatever water might have been in the drinks, and "serious disorders resulted...
...aged, crippled Ichiro Hatoyama is the one who can do the job. He is essentially a politician, a man who made his way up by nifty deals across the go and mah-jongg tables, by tough brawling in the Diet (once he rushed to the rostrum and tried to punch a fellow Diet member in the nose), and by tacking with the winds of national sentiment. "He is not the kind of leader who stands out and looks down on the people," said a friend, "but more the kind who leads by standing in the middle, of them...
...year's Drumbeats and Song, the Harvard Band swung through a selection of spirited melodies, well matching the energetic performance of Snake Oil. To attempt a criticism of last night's concert would be like kicking holes in the Band's new drum. Each tune was delivered with that punch which stirs a chorus of accompanying shoe taps...