Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Monte Blue, 72, matinee idol of silent films (So This Is Paris, White Shadows of the South Seas), more recently a bit player in movies and TV; and Portrait Painter Betty Munson Mess, 42, widowed mother of four children; both for the third time; in Los Angeles...
...last 198 minutes of playing time, the varsity soccer squad will be a grimly determined group as it faces a tough M.I.T. eleven this afternoon here at 3 p.m. The Engineers have perenially been one of the Crimson's most stubborn opponents, and, with the varsity's offense currently silent, the game must be rated a toss...
...there were also some pleasant things coming before the President on his return to Washington. Although the U.S. remained discreetly silent about its preferences in the British elections, the President could hardly have been less than delighted at the sweeping victory of his old friend Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS). And perhaps the most satisfying event of the week was a visit from another friend of the U.S., Mexico's President López Mateos (see HEMISPHERE). Last year, after returning from his tempestuous visit to Latin America, Vice President Nixon recommended that the U.S. distinguish more clearly among...
...ponderous electric hobby horse, on which Calvin Coolidge took frequent constitutionals while in the White House, was presented to the Forbes Library in Coolidge's home town, Northampton, Mass., where Coolidge's widow Grace dwelt until her death in 1957. The 220-volt contraption, on which Silent Cal often played cowboy with the chief of his personal Secret Service guards, is triple-gaited and can also pitch as if going over jumps. It will be put to pasture in the library's Coolidge Room...
...loyalty oath will be difficult to defeat. It is politically profitable to a majority of Congressmen, and defense in emotional patriotic terms is very easy. Only by making its opinion felt in papers and colleges throughout the nation, by mobilizing the hitherto silent leaders of state colleges, and by communicating directly with the administrations of other universities can Harvard accomplish anything...