Word: ringer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left Johnstown, Pa., four years after the last flood. ("We weren't involved - we lived up on a hill.") His parents and the township were adamantly Republican, and before Harris graduated from Nether Providence High School in 1952, he had been transformed from an introvert into a veteran doorbell-ringer and door-slammer for the local...
...husband, Air Force Colonel Robert Hagerman, is alive somewhere in Indochina, even though he has been missing for nearly six years. "One day I was feeling depressed," she said last week, "and I remembered that if you want a message, you should open the Bible and put your ringer on a verse." She opened the book to Jeremiah, which she had never read before. The text said: "And they shall come again from the land of the enemy." If Hagerman does not appear during the 60-day release period, his wife is thinking of getting a visa and, armed with...
Some teams, it's true, can't get enough humilitation. After Bok's Jocks, alias the Harvard Administration, had fizzled to a 23-2 defeat in a well publicized game against the Crime last fall, Bok, a highly touted ringer from Stanford, arrogantly insisted on a basketball game in the winter. He discovered, however, that a basketball court is harder to fall on than the soft turn of his own endzone, and as a result he was forced to move his locker from Mass Hall to Mass General for a few weeks...
...strong musical integrity. None of the music presented Thursday evening was, in the traditional sense, fun to play or conduct, as are the massive 19th century war-horses usually undertaken by transient orchestras comprised of widely diverse individual talents. Equally commendable is the fact that there was only one ringer in the group (as it happened, the Summer School just didn't attract a tuba player this year). And while the quality of performance was often less than ideal (although it was never distressingly so)--better this state of affairs than a dull program with a lot of last-minute...
...expected you to encourage Nor man Cousins in his brave endeavor to start a new magazine. I had hoped it would be a "dead stodgy" ringer" Saturday for our Review dear and old not at "wordy all like and the present supermodern one from which Norman Cousins "stalked" away just in time - thank goodness...