Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Barnaby's Crimson, which over the weekend absorbed twin 5 and 4 lickings by Penn and Williams, can again expect a close match today. Like Harvard, Dartmouth has a "potential" improving team and chances are the match won't be decided until later in the afternoon...
...Orleans, doctors had told the couple that their twin babies had been born blind. Andrew Hoffmann, telephone repairman, and his wife, Beverly, did not give up hope. They chartered a plane to New York to see if specialists could cure their sons (TIME, May 2). The U.S. followed the case with sympathy and admiration for the courageous parents. Last week, in the New Orleans States, Mrs. Hoffmann told how she and her husband had met their trial. Said...
...fire spread to other trucks; soon tons of meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south-and westbound long-distance circuits were knocked...
...film's plot unfolds in the twin towns of Altenstadt and Neuburg, on either side of the Elbe, in the Soviet and American zones of Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
What Bell Wrought. At 73, Editor Grosvenor is a frail-looking, energetic man with a neat white mustache, a Phi Beta Kappa key and the manner of a Boston Brahmin. Grosvenor was born (with a twin brother now dead) in Constantinople, where his father was a professor at Robert College. Fittingly enough, from his nursery window the future geographer could see two continents...