Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell, the Ivy League champion last season, has been picked by the Ivy coaches to repeat this year. The Big Red won its opener against Scranton, 66 to 58, but lost to Colgate...
...Born in Scranton, Pa., La Gorce has been interested in geography and wildlife since childhood. In 1905 he was writing a column on geography, syndicated to 17 U.S. newspapers, when he was hired by the National Geographic Society at $60 a month as assistant secretary. La Gorce became a recognized authority on fresh and saltwater fish, edited the magazine's famed Book of Fishes. With his wife, a champion high school speller who still reads every word he writes to correct spelling errors, he has visited almost every country in the world except Russia. He plans no changes...
Lullaby (by Don Appell) concerns a 38-year-old truck driver who wriggles out from under his mother's thumb to marry a likable nightclub cigarette girl. The play first chronicles a honeymoon in Scranton complicated by Mother's rampageous arrival from New York; it then chronicles household arrangements in New York dislocated by Mother's inching her way into the household...
TONY DIAMONTI Scranton...