Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most scholarships will be increased next year to compensate for rising room rents, Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, announced yesterday...
...week, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, mused about the futility of wealth and power. The aria, Oh! de' verd'anni miei, got hearty applause. After the curtain fell on the third act of Verdi's Ernani, barrel-chested Baritone Cornell MacNeil scurried back to his dressing room, where he signed his name to a La Scala option for next season. Then he dispatched a cable to his wife in Cliffside Park, NJ.: "We tore up the pea patch, doll...
...must leave Paris on regimental maneuvers, asks his pal Marcel (Roddy McDowall) to look after his mistress Lulu ("Take her to the zoo"). But before Lulu (Tammy Grimes) can say "zoo, la la," she wakes up in bed with her chaperon. She promptly dives under it to make room for Marcel's own mistress, a mock-seductive duchess (Polly Rowles) with the voice and manner of Poe's Raven. From across the frozen tundra comes the Prince of Salestria, who wants to thaw out with Lulu in the same busy bed. Since Lulu is a cocotte, pleasure...
Black Line Payoff. At lift-off Dr. Debus looked through the window, studying the quality of the roaring flame. His experienced eye told him that ignition had been perfect. He strolled to the instrumentation room, where a moving pen was tracing a black ink line on a flowing chart. If the black line, which represented the rocket's trajectory, stayed sufficiently close to a blue line representing the planned course, all would be well. He watched for a minute or so. Then his saber-scarred face smiled gently. "It looks good," he said. Pioneer...
...Felt Like a Jerk." In a sense, Trimble's series arose from a sense of frustration. Arkansas-born Vance Trimble was just 14 when he started tracking down personals for the Okemah (Okla.) Leader. He never got to college, shuttled instead around the Southwest from city room to city room in the '30s before landing with the Houston Press, rising to managing editor, and in 1955 going to work for Scripps-Howard. In Washington with the title of news editor for the Scripps-Howard bureau, Trimble was tied to a desk from...