Word: alden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane...
...nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
Harvard will play the usual ladder of Gerry Emmet, Time Gallwey, Romer Holleran, Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Jorge Lemann, Pete Smith, Alden Briggs, and Doug Poule...
...great depth was compromised by its failure to take a single game from Holleran, Vinton, Lake, Lemann or Smith, who played numbers three through seven for the Crimson. In one of the most conclusive matches of an already decisive day, Peter Smith won his first game 15 to 1. Alden Briggs and Doug Poole completed Navy's defeat by taking the two final matches...
...other Crimson players--Captain Gerry Emmet, Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Jorge Lemann, Peter Smith, Doug Poole, Alden Briggs, and Ed Vaughan--all won their matches by shut-outs, as did alternate Dick Chute. Tim Gallwey, usually the varsity's second man, was unable to make the trip but will play against Navy Saturday...