Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fried fish, and a spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike...
...Jockey Tony Despirito, 17, his 300th race this season, the eighth American rider ever to turn the trick; at Salem, N.H. Cf Australian Open Golf Champion Norman Von Nida, a playoff, 72-77, over the U.S.'s Ed ("Porky") Oliver, in the $7,840 Ampol Tournament; at Sydney...
...handkerchief ample. As drama, the picture is largely barren: the clown is not really in love with the girl nor she with him, although she tries to be, out of gratitude. Her heart's desire is a young composer (played by Chaplin's 26-year-old son Sydney). Since the leading characters are only dancing a minuet, they can hardly reduce a stouthearted audience to sobs...
Suggested names will come from lists of volunteers in each dormitory, and from candidates proposed by a Council committee whose members are Betsy Brown '53, Sydney Foster '54, and Janet Titus '55. Final selections will rest with Mrs. Kathleen O. Elliott, Director of Admissions who suggested the project, and the Annex deans...
...Sydney Foster '54, class president, informed the group about a proposed Junior Class newsletter. This mimeographed paper would inform members once or twice a year of progress on class projects...