Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss United States, runner-up in the Miss. Universe Contest will perform her first functions as judge tonight when she will meet with 25 semi-finalists in the Miss Radcliffe contest. At this time she will help the CRIMSON executive board narrow the field down to seven finalists; and eventually she will cast a proxy ballot for the girl she believes most beautiful...
...ventriloquist. But was it ventriloquism? On a sightless medium, it was less an illusion than high aural comedy by a man with a natural wit and an educated larynx. Television was another matter. Bergen, his technique rusty after radio, made a few exploratory TV appearances, then went off to semi-retirement to think things over and work on his movie autobiography (From Little Acorns). Into the gap streaked Winchell, his ventriloquial skills razor-sharp...
...churchmen away from the sweetly realistic style so long in fashion. The Netherlands' Johann Thorn Prikker, who died in 1932, has done as much as any stained-glass designer to set the new direction for his German colleagues. He was represented in the show by two brilliant, semi-abstract windows: one with a dove to symbolize the Holy Spirit and the other with a fish to symbolize the Christ. More somber were Ignatius Geitel's windows illustrating the Apocalypse, one of which showed an apocalyptic horseman with a greenish face, red hair and yellow halo...
Cheers on the Field. When Wainwright and his fellow generals deployed their troops, they had some 19,000 U.S. Regulars, 12,000 Philippine Scouts and 60,000 semi-trained Philippine army troops to meet the attack of General Masaharu Homma's 250,000 Japanese, supported by their uncontested control of the sea and the air. The troops, still the peacetime Army, were badly equipped. MacArthur ordered Wainwright to put into effect War Plan Orange, the 20-year-old strategy for a withdrawal to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, where the defenders would wait for help from...
...thumbs. Daylight comes, but in the 24th hour, Lindbergh has to strike his face and arms viciously and stamp his feet to keep awake. Over and over again he does his navigation chores: ". . . And 12 make 23. Twenty-three-what do I want with 23?" But even in a semi-stupor, he does his chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing smacks. Diving to 50 ft., he throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs...