Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressed by Tiger ace Tom Welsh, Kaufmann turned in a spectacular 2:06.5 winning time in the 200 back-stroke, toppling the University, varsity, and Princeton pool records. He shaved 3.7 seconds off the old University record of 2:10.2. Kaufmann took an easy first in the individual medley, finishing ahead of teammate Pringle...
...medley relay, the Princeton team of Welsh, Green, Griffith, and Williams trounced Hayden, Schellstede, Coffman, and McAnulty of the Crimson, setting a Princeton pool and university record of 3:45.6. The time was nearly two seconds better than the present Harvard record...
Between forays to a Washington psychiatric hospital to sign Ezra Pound (see BOOKS) or to London to snag T. S. Eliot, the partners did their own taping, cover designing, package wrapping and mailing. Most of the orders were for their initial recording, a reverberating reading by Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas, whom they approached by sending him a note after a poetry reading ("We just signed our initials," recalls Marianne, "so he wouldn't know we were unbusinesslike females"). After five days of hounding him, they finally got the poet's agreement, and the six records he turned...
Last week newspaper readers hung over every detail of a new thriller that promised to follow the classic tradition. Its setting was the town of Rhyl, a drab Welsh working-class seaside resort. There, one rainy day last May, 29-year-old Leslie Harvey, taxi driver, decided to clean out an old, locked closet on the upstairs landing in the shabby boardinghouse on West Kinmel Street owned by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Harvey, 65. She had been under treatment for a cancerous stomach tumor, and he planned to have the house spruced up as a surprise for her when...
...prose is Welsh; he can be language-drunk or sly with bawdry, as Dylan Thomas was when he named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into derring-do, despite the derring-don'ts of his womenfolk. At the end, he escapes a platoon of dragoons and a mine cave-in, and boards ship for the U.S. Cordell can be counted on to tell more of this lad, who will arrive in the New World in good...