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...highlights the show. Indeed, every scene is a dance scene, and the dances are all imaginatively conceived if not always admirably executed. The brightest spot in the performance comes late in the third act when a waiter (Philip Burnham) announces "Pepe and Lolita with the Tango," and tall Wes Thum and the petite Elizabeth Theiler run through an hilarious take-off on the "tragic" dance routine...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: The Boy Friend | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...Paul D. Sheats '54, president of the Student Council; Mark W. Cannon, treasurer of the Graduate Student Council; William W. Abbott, Business School; Richard Rosenthal, Design School; J. Frank Schulman, Divinity School; Norman R. Dixon, School of Education; Andrew L. Kaufman, president of the Law Review; Lawrence C. Thum and Thomas F. O'Brien, Medical School; Robert W. Clubb, Dental School; Dalmas Nelson, School of Public Administration; and Dr. Trawisk H. Stubbs and Young B. Moon, School of Public Health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marshal Picks Students for Inauguration | 10/9/1953 | See Source »

...sight's elbow telescope, which enables an anti-aircraft gunner, for example, to look horizontally into the eyepiece and see his target overhead. The elbow telescope inverts the image; the roof prism's function is to turn the image right side up. Roof prisms are thum-sized, polished crystals whose two top facets are shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat; the right angle between the roof facets must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazers at War | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Bowling is almost as old as history. Ten pins, which is modern U. S. bowling, started when nine pins was declared illegal in 1875. Father of U. S. bowling was Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Thum, whose two alleys under the German restaurant he ran on New York's Greenwich Street in 1880 comprised the first U. S. "bowling academy." He was the organizer and perennial president of the United Bowling Clubs which formed the American Bowling Congress in 1895. He died last January, just too soon to witness the first Bowling Congress ever held where U. S. bowling started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Congress Bowls | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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