Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love neighborhood characters," he says. And his writing continually reflects his affection for widely assorted types. There was the winsome old lady who wandered out daily for two quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then there was Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, the late ace recruiter of new talent for the Chicago syndicate. "He could reach into the backwoods and find talented machine-gun players the way George Halas sometimes spots star material in small colleges...
Scarcely three weeks after the show opened at Broadway's Winter Garden, Angela Lansbury, 40, who had spent most of her career typecast as a termagant, came forward in Manhattan's Rainbow Room and accepted the American Theater Wing's Tony Award as the best musical actress of the season. "Up to now, I've always been such a good nominee," the whacky Mame wept happily. Some of the other winners: Richard Kiley, 44, judged the best musical actor for his Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha; Rosemary Harris, 38, best dramatic actress...
...Society wasted no time congratulating themselves on the party. And why not? It attracted more than 500 guests, raised $55,000 for the festival, which, in addition to offering free Shakespeare in Central Park six nights a week all summer, is planning to put on a winter season of contemporary plays. At least, last week's party was contemporary...
...warring pro-football leagues had been quietly negotiating a peace. Last week came the announcement: the National and American leagues had agreed to 1) kiss and make up, 2) hold a common player draft, 3) stage an annual "world-championship" play-off game starting next winter, and 4) merge in 1970 into a single, 28-team league...
During the fall of 1916 and the winter of 1917 the issue had changed from "should the U.S. prepare?", to "how should the U.S. prepare?", and the dispute between the preparers and the pacifists flared up again. It was at this time that the Senate began to discuss the Chamberlain Bill, calling for universal military service. Many Harvard organizations, including the Student Council and the CRIMSON, supported conscription, but pacifist organizations from several Eastern universities, including Harvard, sent delegations to the Senate committee which was hearing testimony on the Bill. Speaking for the International Polity Club, several Harvard students told...