Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity lacrosse team recovered from a case of first period ineffectiveness yesterday to soundly thrash Holy Cross by the score of 12 to 5 on the Business School field. The Crimson attack was led by Jerry Pyle and Dub Mallonee, each of whom had six points...
...first string midfielders will be Dick Parks, Dave Birch, and Karl Bjork, with Manuel Cabral, John Gould, and Jerry Cotter ready to take over when the starters tire. The attackmen will be Dub Mallonee, Jerry Pyle, and either Fran Loewald or Nick Lamont...
...American of the title is named Pyle (Audie Murphy), a Harvardman, about 32, working for a U.S. mission in the Federation of Indo-China in 1952. "With his gangly legs and his crew cut and his wide campus gaze he seemed incapable of harm." But he is an idealist. "He was determined to do good, to people, to countries, to the whole world." His naivete horrifies Greene's Englishman, a middle-aged newsman named Fowler (Michael Redgrave), whose pipedreams are provided by opium, and whose pipe is prepared by his pretty little Vietnamese mistress, Phuong. (Phuong...
...woman's entitled to the security of marriage"-adding thoughtfully that of course "we both have her interests at heart." Fowler snaps back incredulously: "I don't care about her interests. I want her!" And still more incredulously he assists at a preposterous charade: he helps Pyle to propose to the girl he is sickeningly sure he cannot live without. "He wants to make you happy," he wearily translates, "and secure your future." Alas, Phuong cannot understand what Pyle means by "future," but she understands very well what he means by marriage, and she longs...
...Roger Duvoisin's The House of Four Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic Ireland, The Wonder Smith and His Son, and in a reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal...