Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Thanks partly to its reluctance to fire anybody, the Times is way overstaffed. At best, a reporter can count on one solid story a day. The Times concedes that
...watching crowds along the 1,000-mile course (Brescia to Rome and back) were almost as intense as the drivers. But wealthy Papa Marzotto (Count of Valdagno Castelvecchio), who had supplied the boys with the best in snappy motor cars, was so mad at his venturesome sons that he refused to go out to see the start of the race...
...weeks of flux, the Faculty said, forced delayed hour exams and created administrative troubles; it meant courses couldn't get started for three weeks. Undergraduates don't really need the extra time, professors felt, because they choose their doubtful courses by white-shoe-count or entertainment value. An extra week could hardly help this kind of choice...
Thirty-one freshmen, 17 sophomores, and 11 juniors are running and biographies of all candidates appear on page six. House committee chairmen will select three men apiece to count the ballots in Phillips Brooks House tonight...
Almost the entire cast of "Figaro!" has approached the play in the buoyant spirit of farce comedy. Jerome Kohn and Ailene Pressman, in the roles of Count Almaviva and Susanne, give animated, completely enjoyable performances. John Kerr, as the hero, Figaro, is far too subdued in the role of a shrewd, extravagant character. Roshanne Dunjhibboy creates a Countess of Almaviva who is completely believable, although lacking some comic spirit. David Bowen is a pleasure to watch as the drunken gardener, and John Gates, Michael Mabry, and Ivan Nabokoff are all alert and lively performers...