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Word: spencers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eddie never paid the slightest attention to critics. He would talk to artists, find out whom they admired, then drop around for a look. One of his prizes was a haunted, bug-eyed self-portrait by Stanley Spencer that Eddie found in a smelly cow-stable studio. "The lust of possession surged up in me," Eddie recalled, "and I asked the price." It was ?18, and Eddie marched out with it under his arm, the paint scarcely dry. Eddie helped young artists in other ways, too. "Usually," says a friend, "he would go out of the studio with a painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Midwife of the Arts | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...softball team finished second. The Funster team was Herb Berger at first, Gerstein, second, Requardt short, Daryl Hawkins third, Marty Doctoroff catching, Ted Johnson, Bob Walser and Wade in the outfield, and either Otis "Ki" Dewan or Denn Spencer pitching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster House Wins Straus Trophy | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Dunster finished third in football, and first in touch football and second in soccer in the fall sports. Cohen, Ball, Jack Brophy, Herb Hoffman, Andy Ichiki, Wade, Boies, Peyton, and Dave Cavers played tackle. The touch team included Johnson, Cook, Van Wye, Spencer, and Requardt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster House Wins Straus Trophy | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Basketball was a strong Dunster sport; the "B" team lost only one game, while the "A" team finished second after a playoff. The "A" team was led by Brophy, Oakley, Marv Arthurs, Whitney, Peyton, and Dewan, while Van Wye, Spencer, Walser, Bill Aaron, Hal Collard, and Bud Ingoldsby played for the "B" team. The hockey team, led by Cook, Bill Looney, Hank Feldman, Boies, Pete Frye, Mike Halberstam, Wehtje, and Pat Conmy, made a strong post-vacation finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster House Wins Straus Trophy | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Bossart goes at five for the Crimson, Dave Watts at six, Steve Spencer at seven, Don Stone at eight, Frank Goodman at nine, and Paul Trinchieri...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Crimson Tennis Team Meets Favored Elis in Finale Here | 5/14/1953 | See Source »

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