Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Crimson football player in 1920. He broke the Freshman backstroke record on his own again in last year's Bulldog sinking with 2:39.4. Diving mentor Bernie Kelley, although disconsolate over the loss of Bob Aaron, still has one of the best board men ever to mount the tower in Tom Drohan, who should have numerous high degrees of difficult feats to unveil by the time the team faces the Greenwood...
...election night in October, De Gaulle was in the tower which he uses for a study, playing solitaire. De Gaulle snapped the radio on occasionally for early election returns, but went to bed at 2 o'clock with no clear idea of the results and left his telephone receiver off the hook. Next morning he got congratulatory calls from people who had been trying to get in touch with him all night...
Getting out to the town seems to confuse the Big Green. "No matter how many-times you've made the trip, there's always the chance you'll take the wrong car and end up at Braves Field instead of Tower Court...
Found: Henry VIM's missing iron pants-the ones that match the iron jacket on display in the Tower of London. Generations of royal armorers had hunted them; they turned up standing under a less glorious top, in a shadowy hall of Scrivelsby Court in Lincolnshire. Historical note: lusty Henry had not always looked like Charles Laughton-the pants' waistline measured only 34 inches...
Poet Jeffers made his translation, "getting freer as it went," of Euripides' drama about five years ago at the urging of Actress Anderson and especially for her. He dedicated his work to her, though he had seen her act only once-in a California presentation of his Greekish Tower Beyond Tragedy. The whacking Broadway success of Medea has made up to Jeffers the recent Broadway failure of a dramatization of his poem, Dear Judas (TIME, Oct. 20). The 60-year-old poet thinks now that he might even try writing an original play "if I knew what to write...