Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long Kefauver arm snaked up into the window of a big bus and caught the right hand of the startled driver, as Estes said: "I'm Estes Kefauver. I hope you will vote for me." In Richmond, Kefauver. who in the past has been photographed riding a pogo stick, eating raw meat and driving a horse and wagon, was snapped climbing through the ropes into a boxing ring. After a day with her candidate, California's Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser cracked: "When I got home that night I shook hands with my mother...
...only gray spot on the scene is dirty snow. Munro has put his squad outside only twice, both times on the asphalt parking lot in front of Briggs Cage--"about the worst conditions imaginable," according to Munro. The rest of the time the varsity has done stick work in the Cage and run laps. "Skillwise we're ahead of last year," he says, "but conditionwise, who can tell...
...traditional label has managed to stick, however--Kirkland is definitely a friendly, participating House. Unlike their counterparts in certain Houses, Kirkland athletic managers usually have little trouble recruiting teams, even in such sports as boxing and fencing. The results can be seen in the Straus trophy standings. Although Kirkland has not won for four years, its teams are perennial contenders, and had compiled enough points at the end of this Fall's competition for second place...
...there are plenty of good songs, many of them turned out by the old and not-so-very-old pros who stick close to Broadway-Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer. But the million-dollar "pops" that feed the gluttony of the nation's 550,000 jukeboxes, slip through the hands of its several thousand disk jockeys, and shake the walls of dormitories and rumpus rooms are written for the most part by little-known men. They are more familiar to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Income Tax Division, than...
...grisly task of dressing the corpse in a hospital cellar as German bombs rain down. Stephen Boyd, as an Irish agent of the Nazis, gives some plausibility to the fictitious counterespionage sequence that ends the film, but Producer Andre Hakim would have been better advised to stick to the original story...