Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corsair who became the terror of the Western seas in the early years of the 19th century, then turned patriot and won pardon for his men by helping Andy Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans. But somewhere along the production line, C.B., now 77, gave the reins into younger hands. The picture was actually made by Producer Henry Wilcoxon, a onetime star (The Crusades) and longtime assistant of the great man, and by Actor Anthony Quinn, DeMille's son-in-law, who in The Buccaneer has taken on his first assignment as a director...
Captain LaRusso is a consistent 15 point a game scorer, who also pulls down a good number of rebounds. Along with him in the front court will be either Gary Vandeweghe (the younger brother of the former New York Knickerbocker star) or George Ramming, both of whom measure over 6 ft., 4 in. and are strong off the backboards...
These and other Republicans may soon regret the haste with which they deposed Joe Martin. He might well have been willing to work closely with a younger man for a year and then step down in his favor, had not such a course seemed to involve an ignominious surrender to Halleck, who has been bucking uppishly for Martin's job for the last two terms. This would have avoided Tuesday's outbreak of intra-party bitterness, which will be remembered if only by the pathos of Joe Martin's defeated smile...
Also significant: although some narrowing of coronary arteries occurred regardless of occupation, the most severe shutdowns, of the type that causes clear-cut heart attacks, were more frequent among light workers and occurred when they were younger-as often in their 45-59 age group as among heavy workers aged...
Electronic Future. Scherchen is as famed for stinginess as for temperament: friends joke that he planned the birth of his four younger children in England (he has a total of eight children by three wives) to take advantage of the National Health Service. One of Scherchen's passions away from the podium is experimenting with "everything that conserves sound"; at his home at Gravesano, Switzerland, he has built what he regards as "the most advanced electracoustically experimental studios in the world." Recently he has developed a "stereophoner," an electronic device that gives the illusion of stereophonic sound to monaural...