Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Audience Participation. In Englewood, Colo., a customer went into the Spencer Sporting Goods Store, asked Manager E. E. Tyson to show him a pistol, examined it, loaded it with his own bullets, aimed it and murmured: "This is a stickup...
Veteran Gerry Murphy is tentatively set for the fifth slot of the forthcoming spring tour, inasmuch as Gene Mann, a promising sophomore, number one on last year's freshmen, can't make the trip. Senior Bill Goodman is slated for six, and sophomores Terry King, Dom Spencer and Herb Stone for seven, eight, and ten. Steve Sonnabend, a junior transfer from Cornell, who was ineligible last year, looks like the number nine man. Senior Dick Beche, sophomores Frank Goodman. Mike Ward, and Junior Paul Trinichieri complete the trip list...
...CROOKED WAY (247 pp.)-Elizabeth Spencer-Dodd, Mead...
...Crooked Way is Mississippi-born Elizabeth Spencer's second novel, and it is almost a compendium of all the fashionable faults likely to be found in a young highbrow novelist. Her characters seem scooped from Faulkner rather than observed from life. Her technique of letting several characters tell the story in rotation, also reminiscent of Faulkner, is much too complex for her simple materials. And a throbby, portentous style suggests that, so far, she is more concerned with displaying her sensibility than releasing her story...
Kazan was slated to be the second man to speak in a series of Foundation lectures in honor of the late Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. T. S. Eliot '10 gave last year's lecture...