Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wynn talked his sponsor, Speidel Corp., into letting him make television recordings of his show on the West Coast two weeks before it was shown to the rest of the country. It seemed unlikely that Eastern critics would duplicate the West Coast raves ("The ultimate in TV comedy," cried the Los Angeles Mirror). Variety complained of Wynn's "vintage jokes and facial contortions," and commented acidly: "If he was trying to imitate Milton Berle he outdid him by staying in camera range longer...
...West Coast...
...Coast Guard Academy in New London today and tomorrow, Mike Post and Frank Scully will be racing for Harvard in the first Eastern Intercollegiate Star Class Championship. Competition will come from Cornell, Yale, Colgate, Boston College, Tufts, and the Coast Guard...
Other HMC parties were deployed this summer to the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, the Coast Range in Alaska, and the French Alps--a fact which might surprise some of the founders, who originally started the club as a bull-session society. This was in 1924, when Henry S. Hall, Jr. '19 returned from climbing near Banff and wanted to tell all his friends about it. So he invited them to his house and started talking, and called it the Harvard Mountaineering Club...
...winning combination compiled a two-day total of 140 points to edge out it's nearest competitor, Yale, by one point. Other team totals were Princeton, and M. I. T., 121; Brown 119; North-eastern, 115; Harvard, 111; Coast Guard Academy, 101; Navy, 96; Dartmouth, 83; University of Toronto, 68; Trinity, 65; and McGill...