Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University has followed a policy of strict neutrality during the AFL campaign. "We prefer that they remain neutral," Sullivan says, adding that his Local is neutral toward the University. "You can't call a guy a bum, and then go in and ask him for raises," he explains...
...Bum He. Even Don is surprised. When the Redlegs got him from Chicago last fall, he was ready to quit baseball if he did not have a good year. "I'm not going back to the minors," he told General Manager Gabe Paul. "I don't want to become a baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome...
...Producer Lionel Rogosin, a 33-year-old textile magnate who quit as president of Beaunit Mills to make this movie, shot every foot of it on the scummy sidewalks and in the smelly bars of the Bowery itself. The main character is a 42-year-old, self-admitted Bowery bum named Ray Salyer (who recently refused a $40,000 contract offered by a Hollywood producer with the comment: "I just want to be left alone . . . There's nothing else in life but the booze"). Since the picture was completed, two of the principal supporting players have died from cirrhosis...
...widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they are. And the film ends with the doctor deciding to resume practice and the lovers rushing into one another's arms. This fairly complex tale is told clearly and movingly. Gerard Philippe plays the bum with a wonderful fierce honesty and depth of feeling, and Miss Morgan is excellent...
Friday's demonstration, which was entirely peaceful, had apparently been planned at least two weeks in advance and had the approval of various student government organizations. The primary cause of the boycott reportedly was "bum food"--more specifically "dried up hamburgers." Upwards of 350 residents in Baker House deserted their regular dining room in favor of the allegedly more tasty food in nearby Walker House, where the hamburgers were said to be "nice and juicy...