Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the league, only Dartmouth and Princeton seem to offer much competition for the varsity: the Indians because, according to Barnaby, they are "better than anyone gives them credit for," and the Tigers because the Crimson must play them at Princeton. The other league opponents are none too tough, and, of the non-league teams, only Amherst, which edged a crippled varsity last year, 5 to 4, might cause trouble, although they are much weaker than they were a year...
Therefore, the Crimson's top two men had tough matches and often lost, while the bottom of the team was only mildly tested. The varsity's victories down south came mainly on the basis of depth: against Presbyterian on Friday, the Crimson dropped first and second singles and first doubles, and then swept the remaining six matches...
...missionary, took off for Great Britain. He spent 18 months in Scotland preaching the Mormon gospel from door to door, then went to London to preach for six more months from a soapbox in Hyde Park and at Tower Hill. The competition from other soapboxers for listeners was so tough that Romney teamed up with a red-bearded Socialist to catch an audience. They agreed to heckle each other's meetings regularly, thus both drew crowds. Says Romney: "I suppose some people thought I was eccentric. But I found it an illuminating, uplifting experience...
...Ghost. Never has Detroit seen an auto executive like Romney. In an industry noted for hard drinking and tough talk, Romney does not drink (not even tea or coffee), or smoke or swear. He is the president (i.e., bishop) of the Detroit stake of twelve Mormon churches, was the leader in building a new $750,000 Mormon tabernacle in suburban Bloomfield Hills. He gives 10% of his $100,000 salary, and sometimes more, to the church. He reserves his Sundays exclusively for church activities, often travels to other Mormon churches to set up conferences or deliver sermons...
Died. Raymond Chandler, 70, mystery novelist (The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The Lady in the Lake), screen adapter (with Billy Wilder) of Double Indemnity, creator of glib, tough-talking Private Eye Philip Marlowe; in La Jolla, Calif. Chandler came late (44) to his fiction career, but his imagistic style put brassy, sassy dialogue in the corners of some sizable Hollywood mouths,* set a standard few could imitate: "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting...