Word: sadder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kiphuth was in his accustomed spot at poolside as his charges walloped Columbia 57-29-Yale's 176th consecutive dual-meet victory, and notable only for the fact that it surpassed Kiphuth's own earlier record of 175 consecutive victories set between 1924 and 1937. But a sadder milestone faces Kiphuth. He has reached Yale's mandatory retirement age of 68, will be forced to retire at the end of this season. Phil Moriarty. a trusted assistant for more than a quarter-century, will succeed him. To Yale swimmers, the Temple of Sweat will never be quite...
...hanger," says a Dallas retailer, "but get it on 'em and they love it because it's so comfortable!" But many shapely women shun it, say it is a fad as well as a fraud despite its "subtle sexiness." Less shapely women find they look even sadder in a sack...
...show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear to watch the puppets being shut away in their box. Last week, as sad Kuklapolitans and sadder viewers said goodbye to a show that was simple, scriptless, sketchily rehearsed and never tied by contracts. Tillstrom said: "It endured on one principle -love. I hope it doesn't sound too holy. But we loved our audience, and they loved us. It was just a big love affair...
...universities in Poland, none is held in higher esteem among true scholars-and none is in a sadder state of repair-than the Catholic University of Lublin. Its run-down main building still bears the pockmarks left by World War II shells. Its students live five to a room, and the thin stew they get for lunch could well stand more meat. But as all Poles know, there is one thing that Lublin has in abundance. "Throughout all the difficult years." says the rector, Father Marian Rechowicz, "we survived on spirit...
...sadder Thursday night salon but no less alcoholic is that of the Patriarch Justinian. Once defrocked for adultery and alcoholism, the 56-year-old Patriarch was appointed by the Russian Patriarch Alexei. Justinian's function: to help the Communists control Rumania's staunchly religious peasantry. Called in during one of the bearded Patriarch's vice-and-vodka loops, Dr. Cohen prescribed six months' psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy, but achieved no result. Says he: "The Patriarch's conflicts are insoluble...