Word: wager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John G. Kerr '52 and Michael Wager '47, former stars of College and Brattle Theatre productions, have top billings in advertisements for the new Broadway show "Bernadine...
Kerr played the title role in "Billy Budd" at the Brattle last year, and also starred in "A Sleep of Prisoners." Wager had top billing in the Brattle's production of "The idea...
...always the doting and misguided parent. Beyerly Lawrence, however, does quite well in the confusing part of the mother's friend; it is a fuzzy hole because the script never adequately explains why she let herself be picked up in the first place. Another former Brattler, Michael Wager, does his best as Vernon, the grind, but this also is a pretty flat part...
Sure Thing. In Phoenix. Ariz., Wallace Bros. Circus offered $1.000 to anyone who could stay aboard Tiny Tim, the elephant, for three full minutes, won their wager with two men, a boy and one woman-who sued for $111,000 for injuries...
...most-publicized college fad in history started on March 3, 1939, in the Harvard Union, when freshman Lothrop Withington, Jr., '42, goaded by a bet with his roomates, downed a goldfish never to be upped again. Pocketing a wager of $10 in good 1939 currency for his efforts, the Yardling thus ushered in a two-month period, which "Time Magazine called "among the maddest in the annals of U.S. Undergraduates...