Word: bold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman coach Van Brower uncovered some fine material in Johnny Loe, lger Iben, and Bud Adams. Adams, a smooth performer, used a neat guillotine bold to pin his man. He wrestled at Easter, where Lee captained the team last year. Iben is an ex-Illinois State champ...
...school students, or a reward for high grades at college. Scholarships are intended to put into practical terms what Harvard considers the proper qualifications for admissions and Deans List; if students can support themselves they are not eligible for scholarships no matter how good their record. This is a bold attempt to eliminate the economic factor privately in higher education, and represents perhaps the most liberal scholarship philosophy of any university...
Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...
Dulles was campaigning forthrightly on the proposition that just about everything in the Fair Deal was wrong. His good friend Governor Thomas E. Dewey had never been so bold: he had given his approval to most items of Harry Truman's program before saying that he could do them better. Republican Senator Irving Ives had been elected as a liberal, especially sympathetic to much of the New Deal's labor legislation. But, making his first plunge into county-level politics, conservative, 61-year-old Senator John Foster Dulles could not be accused of "me-tooing...
Several years ago, Robert Pinkerton II,* head of the same Pinkerton National Detective Agency which plodded patiently (but unsuccessfully) along in Jesse James's dust for 16 years, decided that he had had enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...