Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France every Thursday night some 2,500,000 people forgo their Sagan, their cinema and other well-known Gallic pastimes to watch a new-style quiz show called Tetes et Jambes, literally "Heads and Legs" but loosely translated "Brains and Brawn." On Brains, the glint of gold is only incidental to the visual gimmicks and the sheer fun of watching the nation's top musclemen come to the aid of the IBMinded. To take home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene...
From the ninth-floor presidential suite of Caracas' Tamanaco Hotel at 1:30 a.m. (E.S.T.) Thursday, New York Times Correspondent Tadeusz Witold Szulc dictated a two-word cable: "Shipment delivered." His message, received by the Times 40 minutes later, was the outside world's first word that Venezuela Strongman Marcos Pérez Jiménez had been overthrown. By the time the dictator's DC-4 took off at 2:10 a.m. for the Dominican Republic -dutifully watched from the hotel's presidential terrace by Reporter Szulc-the Times was making over its first...
...Caracas press corps there were other seasoned censor dodgers, including such photographers as LIFE'S Joe Scherschel and A.P.'s Charles Tasnadi (see cut). Some of A.P. Stringer Morris Rosenberg's early copy went out by phone in Yugoslav. At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, United Press Correspondent Joseph Taylor, 31, sent the first wire-service flash on the government's fall in pidgin French. By the time A.P. filed its first bulletin at 3:08 a.m., Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over the teletypes. Though phone calls...
...Yardling quintet, sparked by Bob Bowditch, has compiled a 6-2 record. It will face Boston College Thursday night and Exeter Saturday night at the I.A.B. The freshman hockey team also has two contests, one with Northeastern Thursday at Watson Rink and the other against the Dartmouth freshmen at Hanover Saturday afternoon...
...Problem of Evil" will be the theme of the third annual Ministers' Institute, to be held Thursday at Andover Hall of the Divinity School. Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, will deliver the annual Ingersoll Lecture, entitled "Greek Ideal of Immortality," in the morning...