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...resting up after his train ride from New York to Washington. He had got off the train slowly, hanging heavily on his ambassador's arm. But, spotting Dean Acheson waiting for him at the train gate, Mossadegh- disengaged his arm and ran the last 15 feet with the vigor of a youngster...
...Aisle (Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray; Decca, 2 sides LP). The tunes run second to the comedy in this current Broadway hit, but Lahr's wobbly voice in The Clown is worth the price of the album. Moreover, Songstress Gray can put over a song with vigor and charm; the proof is in There Never Was a Baby Like My Baby, If You Hadn't But You Did, How Will He Know...
...team games for all students as well as older persons. There would be ample money to support the large stadiums and the expensive athletic departments. Also, there would be no sensitiveness on the possible charge that we were giving up a man's game for one of less vigor. In a word, it is a practical way to make a very sensible change. Harvard could have the leadership in what seems to be an inevitable development. Paul L. Sayre...
...ballplayer disintegrated, subtly but suddenly, into a jerky, rubber-faced caricature of all the rough diamonds of the diamond since the days of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Something seemed to go wrong with his eyes, and he was seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...
...late 1860s, just about the time Jesse James was blossoming in the Midwest, the four Reno boys were shooting up the area with a vigor that set a pattern for all outlaw brotherhoods to come. Though sadly neglected by folklore and Hollywood, the Reno boys were more original than the James or Younger brothers; they were the first to stage a train robbery in the U.S. (near Seymour, Ind. on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad), and once they burned an entire town (Rockford, Ind.) just so they could buy up its land for a bargain...