Word: tops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three of the squad's victories--over B.U. and Providence, over UMass., and over Princeton--were singularly unimpressive. The Crimson defeated the Friars in its opening meet, 26 to 38, mainly because Providence lacked depth. B.U., with 74 points, was never in the battle, fielding only one top-level performer, Art Freeman...
Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near...
Pillow Talk. Flighty feathers fluttering around Hollywood's 1958-59 Box Office Champs Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with almost all the flurry caused by top-notch Comic Tony Randall...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Filmed biography of Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's top accomplice. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who prosecuted Göring at the Nuremberg trials, will help out Narrator Walter Cronkite...
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still peers with tenderness into Chicago's Harlem; La Plume de Ma Tante maintains its Gallic gallop; My Fair Lady and The Music Man top the list of musical comedies...