Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobbing at the hands of an Iranian mob that mistook him for Winston Churchill. But the charge that he seeks to disturb Philippine-U.S. relations is perhaps the oddest ever directed at him. Few Americans have more affection and respect for the Filipino people. Kansas-born Jim Bell spent the formative years of his youth in northern Luzon, returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since. One of the men whose friendship Bell most cherished was the Philippines' late, loved President Ramon Magsaysay-an incorruptible...
Even those who have maintained membership on a CRIMSON board throughout their undergraduate years agree that their six to eight weeks as candidates were among the most valuable they spent in Cambridge. After-dinner pool upstairs in the Union or demi-taste in the House common room may have to be dropped for the duration of this intensive training period, but academic work need not suffer...
Only five years ago, candidates spent most of every evening at 14 Plympton writing the news they had spent their afternoons gathering. The proportion of candidates finally elected was astonishingly small. A glance at today's masthead will show, however, that the number of editors has shrunk; and as a result opportunities for election are now greater than ever before...
...tremendous. TIME says that Olmedo's game was sharpened under the watchful eye of Jack Kramer. Many of our members believe Olmedo would not have been here to play for the U.S. had it not been for George Toley, U.S.C. coach and pro for this club. He spent countless hours perfecting Olmedo's game and persuaded him to stay here when he became unbearably homesick for his native Peru...
...matter of course, he made the Porcellian Club. Summers he traveled abroad, became expert at living like a first-class passenger on a third-class ticket. On one voyage, he ingratiated himself with Boxing Manager Joe ("I should have stood in bed") Jacobs before the ship left the dock, spent most of the trip playing poker on A-deck with Jacobs, Max Schmeling and Morton Downey. In his sophomore year Alec decided summer trips were too short, set out to get his degree in three years, didn't quite make it (he lacked one-half unit), but managed...