Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although practice sessions began three days ago, Coach Bruce Munro said all the returning lettermen from last year's squad have not reported as yet. Munro had to give the day off to several players who complained of stiff muscles. Munro plans to spend three hours a day on practices from now until the season opener against Wesleyan here...
...Selective Service director, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, showed up and was asked to pose for a picture with Lieut. Cohn, the general, possibly recalling the sad consequences which overtook Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens after he obligingly posed with Army Private G. David Schine, retorted with a stiff, military "Hell, no!" Swinging down into the U.S. after a three-week royal tour of Canada, Britain's handsome Duchess of Kent and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, 17, set Manhattan hostesses' knees trembling to curtsy, boards ready to groan. But the Duchess, whose U.S. visit is unofficial, apparently evaded...
...Letter from Newport. In the English colonies along the American coast, Jewish immigrants found a freedom beyond anything they had known in Europe. On paper the colonies severely restricted religious freedom, but the restrictions were seldom enforced against Jews. In 17th century Maryland, a stiff-necked Jewish physician named Jacob Lombroso was tried for blasphemy (he had publicly denied the divinity of Christ), but though he was plainly guilty under the law, the court set the case aside. Lombroso continued to live and prosper in Maryland...
Bogart, in fact, has all the best scenes: the hearty after-dinner get-together in the smoking room, where stiff old industrialists bounce happily up and down on a sheet of some new plastic ; the rusty attempts to rake Audrey (with a uke, a Yale "dink" and a Rudy Vallee record). Says Bachelor Bogart grimly, as he flounders into love: "It'll come back to me. It's like riding a bicycle...
...Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually danced and of them only a hard core of eight couples were in full mambo frenzy. Easily the champs of the evening were...