Word: rans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai E. Stevenson is the choice of the Class of 1963 for President, according to a poll conducted this week by the Harvard Eisenhower Club. Vice President Richard M. Nixon ran a close second...
...learn the writer's craft, he ran away from a Washington, D.C. high school to tour with Orson Welles (a truant officer brought him home from Philadelphia); he put in a couple of years in stock, went to Yale Drama School. Then he moved hopefully to Broadway. "As a playwright," he remembers, "I achieved the rank of hotel night clerk at 22, nightward attendant in a psychiatric hospital at 25, a magazine copy boy at 28." It was while he was a copy boy (at TIME) that his play Bullfight became an off-Broadway...
...Rouault (The Surgeon) vanished from its walls in 1955 and is still missing. The same Rubens that is now at large was also stolen five years ago. That time, the thief triggered an alarm upon leaving, took fright and dumped his loot in Queen's Park as he ran. What makes art theft so fascinating is that the haul is more a burden than a bargain. Unlike gold or jewelry, a painting cannot be converted into something else. Art "fences'' are nonexistent; art dealers, no matter how covetous they may be, cannot afford to handle such...
There had been plenty of other offers. Shrewd, tough and resourceful, Otto Graham was an All-America tailback at Northwestern University, passed and ran the Cleveland Browns to seven league championships in a glittering ten-year professional career that ended in 1955. Last year, proving he could coach big-time football as well as play it, Graham turned assorted college players into a smooth unit that trounced the world champion Detroit Lions in the annual all-star game...
Another pass to Hickman just slipped through the latter's fingers as he ran downfield; he was well out of defense range. Further, UMass scored two PAT's on the same play--a pass pattern down the middle with the receiver completely clear...