Word: rood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lilli Palmer plays Gillian Holroyd, an attractive young witch who takes a liking to a publisher (Rex Harrison) living upstairs. Although witches can't love, she casts a semi-permanent spell on him. Miss Holroyd (whose name means "Holy Rood" in archaic English), is just beginning to enjoy life when her witch aunt and her warlock brother arrive to tangle things up. A pathetic little author of witchcraft books is drawn to the apartment and his descriptions of "them" afford some enjoyable snickers...
Cadet Captain Irv Rood not up the first touchdown with two long runs into Harvard territory, and the Cadets scored on a quarterback snack by Jerry Travis. Reed added the second touchdown on an end run to the right...
Dave Hodberg, who scored a 75 in the play-offs, heads the freshman ten. The nine other low scorers were Bill Rydell, Dan Haskins, George Wheeling, Jack Dennis, Marv Schwalb, Horton Rood, Gil Eisner, Dick Berkeley, Martin Greenberger...