Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...games in each set to Springfield's number one singles man, Ed Newton, while Captain John Rauh was losing but two in each set to Jack Veile in the second match. The next six Crimson singles players--Alex Haegler, rooks Harris, Gene Mann, Donn Spencer, Don Bossart, and Herb Stone--triumphed with equal facility. Their Gymnast opponents were Gil Anderson, Jack Hopkins, Hal Greig, Irv Wilkinson, Charles McCord, and Mal Early, in their order...
Overlooking Prince Valiant's debt to Hopalong Cassidy, and the shoddy manfuacture of its props--even stone keeps crumble obligingly--the picture is not without a minimum of merit. It has the lovely, if generally untalented, Janet Leigh. Although much too little in view, she does brighten up Camelot considerably. There is also a fine fire at the end that features the burning alive of a few underpaid extras, plus a bit of fancy broadsword play...
With the match already clinched, Barnaby was able to use the remainder of his traveling squad in the doubles. Herb Stone and Terry King, normally third or fourth, beat Nordlie and Chuck Reades in the first doubles...
...there was reason for Penn's generosity to the Shallcrosses. The land was no bargain-it was ten miles northeast of Penn's "greene Country Towne" and in the middle of an Indian-infested wilderness. Neither remoteness nor danger, however, dismayed the Shallcrosses. They built a big stone house-with iron shutters to stop flaming arrows and musket ports for return fire-and resolved to stay...
...Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who holds that "the spectacle of what is called religion . . . has filled me with horror," exposed himself to the spectacle again last week and proceeded to horrify the devout. At the dedication of a new textile-industries research building in the city of Ahmadabad, Nehru grew stone-faced when a Brahman priest placed a tilaka mark on his forehead. The priest chanted some monotonous slokas, and Nehru began to fidget in annoyance. The Brahman then grasped the Prime Minister's shoulders and asked him to touch the wall of the building in a ceremonial gesture...