Word: stars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Tom Larris and Nick Jennison, Dartmouth's two infallibles, have outrun Bill Schwabe, star of the Brown squad, who proved faster than any Crimson harrier in the Friday meet. Theoretically, this gives Dartmouth the first and second spots in today's race, with runner Dan Tompkins counted on for either fourth or fifth...
...nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half-miler at Washington and Lee (1949). A Navy gunnery officer in World War II, he survived the sinking of the cruiser Quincy, won eleven Pacific Theater battle stars and the Bronze Star. He specialized in Tennyson at Harvard, earned his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Merton College. Shannon began teaching at Virginia only three years ago. His new job: matching the school's academic standards with its physical expansion. "I reaffirm the Jefferson...
...Angeles dry cleaner, Sherry was born with clubfeet, did not recover from corrective surgery until he was twelve. But Larry grimly pitched by the hour to Brother Norm (now a third-string catcher for the Dodgers), eventually developed enough speed to be a star at Fairfax High School. Signed by the Dodgers, Sherry looked like just another scatter-armed fireballer, once walked 15 men in three innings, had one losing season after another as he wandered through the lower reaches of the minors (Santa Barbara, Great Falls, Mont., Newport News...
...Nunnally Johnson (The Desert Fox, The Three Faces of Eve) have wrung so much carbonated pap out of a skillfully written Romain Gary novel? "Marriage is the last frontier," says Fonda. "Few men face it without remembering what happened to Dr. Livingstone." With that he proposes to an aspiring star (Leslie Caron), whose name he soon writes in the Hollywood sky. They marry, but he is too busy merchandising his wife's soul to give husbandly attention to her body; as their marriage nears its third or fourth anniversary, it remains unconsummated. "There were times," muses Fonda...
...Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Victor Borge pursues an elusive tulip through this Scandinavian travelogue, and, once arrived at his Danish castle, settles down to some hilarious monkey business...