Word: toes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, with scholarly remoteness from war, Jerusalem's Dr. Yigael Vadin published his latest Dead Sea Scroll translation-part of a document earlier identified as an apocryphal Book of Genesis (TIME, Feb. 20). The scroll did justice to Sarah's beauty with an ecstatic, head-to-toe description of her charms...
Died. Harry Ford ("Sinco") Sinclair, 80, poker-faced onetime Kansas pharmacist who parlayed $5,000 in insurance money (awarded after he shot off a toe while rabbit-hunting) into a successful string of wildcat oil wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew...
Pearson's column went out as usual to his 650 papers three days before publication date, which was the very day of Ike's long-promised "head-to-toe" physical examination at Walter Reed Hospital. Soon Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's phone began jangling with queries from editors. One of them supplied him with the full Pearson text. When he saw it, Hagerty called a press conference and spent 45 angry minutes taking apart "the most amazing document of falsehood that I have ever''seen." To any of some 80 newsmen who covered...
...rest of the line is rather makeshift, however, with the biggest weakness coming at end. Bill Callahan, the new right end, sat out all last year because of injuries and was unable to play in the 26-0 win over Bowdoin last week because of an injured toe. His under-study is sophomore Roger Feingold. At right end, Arlanson has been forced to use a converted quarterback, Dick Fortin...
Foam Rubber. On the festive opening night (Danish national anthem, speeches, cheers) the featured work was La Sylphide, choreographed by famed August Bournonville in 1836 and passed down virtually unchanged from lip to toe. It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks...