Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Water & Lemon. At a ranch outside Phoenix last week, Elizabeth Arden's carriage-trade customers were getting a full course of beauty treatments, including slimming, for $500 a week. At Kiowa Lodge, southeast of Los Angeles, an ex-football player (Michigan State) named Sam Dictor was offering a reducing course for the jitney trade at $80 a week. The program began with a glass of hot water and lemon juice served in bed. Then the inmates jumped into sweat suits emblazoned "Kiowa," and began a rugged, day-long routine of calisthenics, swimming, games and "passive exercise" with reducing gadgets...
...Angels (adapted from the French of Albert Husson by Sam & Bella Spewack) makes a very enjoyable evening of an always piquant theme. It tells how three badmen-convicts, in fact-become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from...
...remaining quarter-finalists are Sam Hoar, Dave Maxwell, Gavin Murphy and Hugh Scott of the law School, Hugh Nawn of the Business School, and Dave Watts, captain of the varsity squad this past season. They are expected to complete their matches by the end of the week...
Paul Forand led the Crimson, winning nine bouts against two defeats. Only a play-off-loss to Navy's Don Loring kept him from qualifying for tonight's individual championship bouts. Sam McNair and Les Scherer each won four matches and lost seven...
...Sam Beer is one of the truly great teachers around here," said a section man in Social Sciences II. "Other men may publish more than he does, but when it comes to getting students to understand written material--and that's what a teacher is supposed to do--they don't come better than Beer. He's the kind of man who becomes a living legend." By building his courses around student interests and his own enthusiastic ideas, Beer has built a reputation as a man intensely concerned with his course material. And, of course, his students find it equally...