Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Streak of Business. Nowadays, Marianne (married to a Manhattan public-relations consultant, Harold Mantel!) and Barbara (married to a Baltimore hydraulic engineer, Lawrence Holdridge) visit their cluttered Manhattan office only a couple of times a week to supervise some 100 pending releases. For their Shakespeare project, Partner Mantell went to London last summer to round up talent, much of it from the Old Vic and other repertory companies. Their curtain raiser is a moving and brilliant Macbeth, starring Anthony Quayle and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The two-hour, two-record production was followed by Othello, with Cyril Cusack and Frank Silvera...
...record-of-the-month sort of operation known as Shakespeare Recording Society Inc. (4,000 members so far), are "twelve times what we expected," notes Partner Mantell. She once said: "After studying Greek, Gothic and Sanskrit, we were obviously unfitted for anything." Now she admits: "We apparently had a streak of business sense...
Young Pound developed a lasting eruditer-than-thou attitude, but he also had a large, unmanageable streak of naivete that would derange his life. As a French and Spanish instructor at Wabash College in 1907, he went out late one night and ran into a stranded burlesque girl, hungry and shivering in the winter streets. He fed her, brought her back to his rented room. and let her sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor. When his landladies, two spinster sisters, found out about it, Pound was fired. This episode triggered his departure for London via Venice...
Billy Taylor scored the only touchdown and intercepted two passes deep in Harvard territory to lead the Crimson jayvoes to a 7-0 victory over Pennsylvania Saturday. The win stretched the jayvees streak to five...
This week the key game in shaping the League standings will be in New Haven, where Dartmouth challenges Yale's five-game winning streak. The Big Green stopped the Elis' string at the same point last fall, and the 1960 team, under Bob Blackman, is strong enough to pull the same trick...