Word: quick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Bridges, Australian-born West Coast longshore boss, flew into Reno from San Francisco last week with his companion and registered at the Mapes Hotel as "Mr. & Mrs. Harry Bridges"-prematurely, as it turned out. For one thing, it was too late in the day for even a quick Nevada wedding. For another, as besieging newspapermen pointed out when Bridges jauntily introduced them to his bride-to-be next morning, the archaic, unchallenged Nevada law forbade it. The future and third Mrs. Bridges, 35-year-old Noriko Sawada, a dainty, dignified San Francisco law secretary, is a Nisei...
...Brother. Throughout the road try-out of any of their shows, and beyond the Broadway opening, R. & H. are omnipresent. In their separate ways, they are intensely paternal toward their cast-Hammerstein gently smiling but a little shy and withdrawn, Rodgers quick, effervescent and always ready with a hug for a chorus girl. Says one member of the cast: "Hammerstein is the Great White Father, but Rodgers is Daddy...
...formers. One of the six men arrested in a Negro castration case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister who wrote to the Birmingham News last September simply to protest Orval Faubus' indictment of Presbyterian ministers as "brainwashed left-wingers" (TIME, Sept. 29) still...
...quick-paced first half saw the Crimson employ a three-man press which harrassed the M.I.T. backcourt men into committing unseemly errors. Although the varsity also lapsed on occasion, the team nevertheless was shooting well, and jumped away to a 24-12 lead...
Captain Charlie Hamm began the rout for the varsity, defeating Dennis, Wesleyan's experienced number one man, 3 to 0. Gerry Emmet and Pete Lund, playing easily, followed with 3-1 triumphs over Cardinals Frost and Whitridge. Six straight shutouts then came in quick succession, as Tim Gallwey dispatched Twaddell, Wally Stimpson outclassed Sade, and Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Kent Allen, and Pete Smith beat Fiske, Arnold, Arndt, and Martin of the Cardinals...