Word: rustication
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Wonder coach at the rustic and little known College of Western Maryland, Richard Cresson Harlow was appointed head coach at Harvard on January 7, 1935, to the dismay and discouragement of a Cambridge weary of football losses. In seven years of looping defenses, double shifts and sleight-of-hand offense, the prestidigitator from Westminster put the Crimson back in the Eastern football picture and in the process built himself a reputation as on of the leading tacticians in American football...
...artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
...Pearl Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...
...their homes. "It was no small favor," said Miss Seeds. "You should have seen the bathrooms." Her supporters went to the State Legislature, got a special grant of $300,000 for a new school. Two frame buildings were moved from a wartime airbase, tucked safely away in a rustic corner of U.C.L.A.'s campus, where Miss Seeds owes dominion not to the city but to the University...
...Manhattan gallery next week will put on a comprehensive exhibition of her work. Last week a book of her pictures (Grandma Moses, American Primitive, Doubleday; $6) was re-issued with an introduction by Literary Rustic Louis Bromfield, who compared her with Peter Bruegel. Grandma Moses is no Bruegel, but she is no stale Picasso either. Sophisticates rave over the artless joy in her paintings...