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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst play in Broadway annals, Maid in the Ozarks is very likely the most needlessly disgusting. Though its publicity stresses sex, it contains little except the sort exemplified in a game of footie between two younkers known as Daisy Bell (Cecile de Lucas) and Thad Calhoun (Larry Sherman). Its long suit is actually scatology - lice, bedbugs, belches, outhouses, bare and dirty feet planted on the breakfast table. These intended guffaw-getters are complemented by such basic hillbilly humors as drunken lechers, gabbling halfwits and twitching hags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...bowling enthusiasts have taken over the Harvard "Bowladrome" for weekly sessions from now on. Last week's games saw the Lucky Strikers. Portsmouth Prospects (irony), and 600 Club mark up victories. Neil Plantefabec ('with a reach half-way to the pins," quote Thad Webb) scored a neat 488 while Jim Rafferty, Ruddy Moeller, and Dick Oster made the games interesting instead (stakes being too low for them...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

...Totem Pole also were Lenn White and friend waltzing with eyes closed, and with quite a flourish. So much so that Thad Webb reports almost being floored several times as Johann Strauss put Lenn in the groove...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/26/1944 | See Source »

...addition to the blocking back spot, Dick is also anxious about the center of the line. For the past few days he has been experimenting with every conceivable combination at the guard posts; as the situation stands now, Charley Gudaitis, Thad Mroz, Sid Smith and Wally Kamp appear to be the ranking candidates for these positions...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Anderson Returns to Blocking Back Post | 9/9/1942 | See Source »

...Harvard lineup: le Hugh Lawrence, It Tom Broidrick, lg Lee Sosman, c Bill La Croix, rg Henry Geethals, rt Bill Ellis, re Roger Tatton, qb Thad Strezynski, lhb Caleb Loring, rhb Ha Tine, fb Brooks Heath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Eleven Is To Be Guest of Princeton Today | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

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