Word: sixteener
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...Sixteen years ago, when Herb Shriner was a gangling Indiana schoolboy, radio's top comedians were Fred Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, and Jack Benny. Today, the aging comedians are still on top, but Herb Shriner, as gangling as ever at 30, is their newest competitor...
When Harvard met Yale last week, no less than 22 teams collided. On Friday, some 500 minor-league footballers from the two schools grunted & groaned. Harvard's freshmen plowed Yale under, 32-13, and the Harvard jayvees won, 27-6. Sixteen other teams in action were intramural squads from eight Yale colleges and eight Harvard houses...
Eleven out of sixteen dormitories and off-campus houses turned in 100 percent records with only six students refusing to contribute to the fund...
...very chummy with U.S. Minister Matthew Hanna. It was the smartest move he ever made. Both the minister and his wife were charmed by Tacho's effervescence. Before long, Hanna was urging that when the Marines pulled out, Tacho should be made chief of the Guardia Nacional. Sixteen years ago this week, Somoza took over that job. He has been the Guardia's boss ever since...
...bald, wizened little man whose greatest fear is that he won't live long enough to complete works he has started. Sixteen years ago he completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood and power to compose the third act." Inspiration, he explains, "comes as mysteriously as hunger-and must follow the digestion of a lot of other things. One has to wait until one is called upon...