Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Suit (at Loew's Strand Theatre in Back Bay through tonight). The semi-science-fiction classic from the Alec Guinness canon of comedy...
...some considerable plotting to get his first job. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." So, at II, Birdie Tebbetts got to be mascot and bat boy for New Hampshire's semi-pro Nashua Millionaires, went on from there to become big-league baseball's "Most Voluble Player" and one of its best managers. For a report on how Birdie used at least part of his bat-boy formula to push into the tightest National League race in years, see SPORT, A Game...
Lips Like a Bird. Birdie started his scrambling when he was only eleven and determined to get the job of mascot on the Nashua (N.H.) Millionaires, a semi-pro baseball team that had just been organized in the New England mill town where he grew up. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." In those days, Birdie's hero was a former big-league catcher named Bill Haeffner. Bill lent the youngster a mitt, and Birdie's career began. Soon he could catch...
...alternate Fridays two square dances will be held in the Union from 8:30 to 12, again with a 35 cent admission. The final dance of the Friday evening series will be semi-formal with George Graham and his orchestra, August 9 in the Union at 8:30. The admission to this dance will be $1.00 per couple...
...madman, a Bohemian, a dangerous freethinker. He was obsessed by two great themes, love and death, and chose to depict them in terms of man's paralysis and anxiety when faced with them as raw forces in nature. Much of his anxiety had its roots in his early semi-invalid youth. His mother died when he was five; his father, a military surgeon, gave way to morbid religiosity and insane outbursts at his children. Recalled Painter Munch bitterly: "I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment in Hell...