Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tackles Eddie Davis and Ned Dewey and outstanding center and the line-backer Jack Fisher, and these men will be hard to replace. Candidates for the tackle positions are speedy Howie Houston, 215-pound Chester Pierce, Ron Garvey, and Dean Markham from among the lettermen, Doug Bradlee and Alan Stone from the class of '50, and big John Gorczynski, a transfer from Pitt and St. Louis University who was ineligible last year...
Prospects for the vital center slot are letterman Chuck Glynn, and former Freshmen Bill Hickey and Don Stone. The latter attracted favorable attention in the B. C. scrimmage. At guard there are several excellent prospects, including last fall's regulars Emil Dravaric and Nick Rodis, strong contender Bob Drennan, and scrappy Jim Feinberg among the lettermen, 1945 regular Howie Foster, and last year's Freshman captain Dick Guidera...
...built a dream house for herself and Jimmy in Hawaii. It was a Morocco-Persian mansion with two stone camels at the doorway, a swimming pool with a hydraulic-elevator springboard. Her "ShangriLa" cost $1,000,000. She also contributed $50,000 to the Democrats (Jimmy's political party), and when Jimmy was made U.S. Minister to Canada, she went along. She was a tall, shy, honey-blonde girl with a solemn face. Sometimes she entertained her friends by tap-dancing...
...girl called Gyda, who was the daughter of King Harold. † When it grew too narrow, an outer wall was built around the merchants' quarters, known as Kitai Gorod (or Chinatown), a name picked up from the Tartars. Later, two even larger walls were built-one of white stone (which gave its lame to Bely Gorod, or White Town, where the Czar's servants lived) and a wooden wall (which gave its name to Zemlyanoi Gorod, Wooden Town, for workmen and soldiers...
Buster Keaton, heavy-lidded Great Stone Face of silent films, flew into Paris for a brief new career. The once-famed comedy star, pushing 51, faced a spell of circus clowning (at a reported $200 a day). His new task, to last a month: 14 minutes of sham dueling, twice a day, with the Cirque Medrano's bandleader. His other plans for the future? "None...