Word: twirler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hypothesized New York State University Agricultural & Technical Institute Biologist Louis Pyenson: "When it rains, the drops falling on the earth set up a vibration, and the worms come out. So it must be with hoop twirling. When the twirler shifts weight to keep the hoop spinning, there are vibrations, and the worms rise from the earth...
Stan DePinto, the mascot who grew into a full-time twirler, came out of his voluntary semi-retirement Saturday afternoon to lead the Harvard Band in its pre-game and half-time drills...
During the next years the Band used him mainly as a mascot, along with its regular twirlers, but after the war, Bill Reinhart, then drum major for the Band, accosted DePinto as he was walking across the Square one day, and "pressured" him into accepting the position of full-time twirler. From 1946 until 1954, when he went into his retirement, DePinto twirled at every home game and most of the away games...
According to Richard C. Rogers '56 drillmaster of the band, they will form an II to skate off the Ice. The band director, G. Wright Briggs '31 and the twirler will both be on skates also...
...unwary dial-twirler in New York is likely to tune in on some strange and wonderful giveaway shows. From an "overstocked surplus warehouse," the listener has been offered "at laughably low prices, sweaters in two styles-turtle or V-neck. Just state what kind of neck you have." Or how about a ten-day course on "How to Become a 97-lb. Weakling"? Or a Handy Burglar Kit, containing jimmies, canvas gloves, crepe-soled shoes and "aliases you can use over and over again -for example, Benjamin Franklin and Mary, Queen of Scots...