Word: webster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scoring for the Whalers were Larry Pleau, Rick Ley, and Tom Webster, Attendance at the Garden...
...Dartmouth began its 203rd year with a convocation in Webster Hall, President John George Kemeny professed himself ready to "risk chaos by moving forward with new ideas." Dartmouth's most striking new idea was already a reality: the college's first 252 coeds. In their honor, Kemeny asked the students to refrain from singing the traditional Men of Dartmouth ("Men of Dartmouth,/ give a rouse, for the college on the hill..."). Instead, they sang a verse of Dartmouth Undying ("Remember/ the splendor and fullness of her days..."). But then from students in the gallery came a touch...
After nearly half a century in the theater, Director-Actress Margaret Webster, 67, had more than enough tales to fill a book. So she wrote one (Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage; Alfred A. Knopf; $10) and celebrated its publication with a party for old friends and wide-eyed admirers on the stage of Manhattan's Imperial Theater...
Giving the cleaning ladies the night off, Radio City Music Hall opened its doors at midnight for a four-hour jam session that saw Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, and Milt Jackson tapping toes where the Rockettes usually toe-up to tap. Uptown at Yankee Stadium, the likes of Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan made a far more winning team than the stadium's usual inhabitants...
Frothy Empire. By contrast, Joseph, 62, has long had a fancy for beer. Last year he won a takeover battle for the London brewing firm of Truman. His defeated opponent in that fight: Michael Webster, chairman of Watney's. The Truman shareholders got Joseph's Grand Metropolitan stock and have seen its market value rise by 160% in a year. Small wonder that Joseph claims "Watney's shareholders would be better off if there were a merger." Naturally, Watney's Webster denies that. He proudly points to Watney's size and prospects: sales last year...