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...Lord High Everything Else, Garlick is truly the man born with a sneer, who cannot even arise from his knees without throwing the audience into convulsions. Stone's performance has to be seen to be believed. His facial expressions are each one masterpieces, and his delivery of the old chestnut, "My Object All Sublime" was an experience to remember. His short appearance is almost too good to be true...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Mikado | 12/4/1959 | See Source »

They are Jerome C. Axelrod '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Houston, Tex.; Robert L. Beal '63, of Matthews Hall and Chestnut Hill; Daniel Del Solar '63, of Mower Hall and Santa Monica, Cal.; Gary M. Grikscheit '63, of Straus Hall and Birmingham; William C. Hodge '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Springfield, Ohio;; Alfred J. Kahn '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Houston, Tex.; Stephen A. Keese '63, of Stoughton Hall and Chattanooga, Tenn.; Phillip L. Stotter '63, of Greenough Hall and South River, N.J.; David W. Walker '63, of Thayer Hall and Canaan, N.Y.; and Ronald H. Winston '63, of Matthews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Elect | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...visits Princeton in an important game for the Indians. If the Big Green wins, it can hold on to a chance for first place in the League. But the spotlight of the day will be on New Haven. And there it seems that the Crimson will prove the old chestnut: Yale has the Bowl, but Harvard has the punch...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...when Carbo startled the courtroom by throwing in the towel. He admitted that he was the undercover manager for Welterweight Pug Jim Peters in one fight, and that he had been the real power behind the stable ostensibly managed by Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman (Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Featherweight Ike Chestnut). More damning yet was Carbo's admission that he had been the behind-the-scenes matchmaker for the welterweight title elimination fight in March 1958 between Virgil Akins and Isaac Logart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Grey | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...girl is Farah Diba, 21, slender and tall (5 ft. 8 in.), with shiny black eyes and curly chestnut hair worn in a carefully untidy nouvelle vague coiffure. A onetime student of architecture at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, she stood 20th in a class of 156, is a competent pianist, a good swimmer and basketball player. Popular with her French classmates because she had "such a lot of heart and sensitivity," Farah comes from a well-to-do Iranian family and is distantly related to weepy ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who briefly dethroned the Shah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah's Search | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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