Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a mistake. He met a dark-haired girl named Gloria Horowitz in a Manhattan nightclub; he took her to Philadelphia, gave her some diamonds, told her to sell them for him in a jewelry store. A suspicious clerk called the cops. Dennis, waiting outside the store, saw her being arrested. He calmly walked away, but when Gloria finished talking, the police for the first time had a line...
Other performers during the evening included: Eric Victor, a dancer from the cast of "Inside U.S.A.," the Dunster Dunces and the Krockodiloes, both collegiate singing outfits; Ellis Traub '52, who played a musical saw; Hugh Shepley '51, a juggler; the Four Flats, a freshman barbershop quarter; and Marie McDonnell, New England Tributary Theater singer...
...lived in Australia, the Rev. Colin Craven-Sands thought highly of British fox hunting. "I had seen pictures of hunting scenes," he remembers, "and I liked the pretty dress worn by hunting folk." Shortly after taking up his duties in a small Cornwall parish, Mr. Craven-Sands one day saw the local Four Burrow Hunt bring a fox to ground. What he thought he saw and heard changed his mind about fox hunting...
...aunt had when I was a child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once the whole story-which I do not want to tell...
...last week an old friend dropped into the office of handsome, courtly Samuel Hay Kauffmann to congratulate him. At 50, Kauffmann had been elected president of the Washington Evening Star-the capital's oldest, richest and most conservative newspaper. Said the friend: "I remember the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the tailgate of a Star truck." Sam Kauffmann, grandson and namesake of the Star's first president, had started at the bottom 28 years ago to learn the business side of the business...