Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skirts fly. See the gallant gentlemen help the poor damsels in distress regain control of their runaway steeds. Come to the annual Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race, taking off from the Soldiers Field gate at 2 p.m. Sunday. The prize: no, not the fox's tail, but a Peugeot racing bicycle, compliments of the Bicycle Exchange...
...American society." In fact, the U.S. intellectual has never been persecuted in any real sense-not even during the chivying of the McCarthy era. Much of the primitive anti-egghead feeling was really based on envy (as one pro-McCarthy paper put it) of "certified gentlemen and scholars dripping with college degrees." The Russian launching of Sputnik made education and intellectualism newly desirable. The Kennedy Administration made it glamorous in a slightly Broadway-tinted way by creating a sort of Camelot for brains. If not quite in the same style, the most distinguished old grad of Texas' Southwest Teachers...
...skinniest stripper in America." Blonde and randy, Melba wears the longest fake eyelashes in New York and the tightest clothes. Aging millionaires delight in lending her their Cadillacs and shower her with $100 bills. Melba is a direct descendant of Lorelei Lee in Anita Loos's 1925 bestseller, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and, like Lorelei, has a mousy girl friend to come along on double dates...
Following Gantt was Prosecutor Gamble, who warned against "anarchy," urged that the jurors refuse to "put our stamp of approval on this kind of lawlessness." Said Gamble: "I don't agree with the purpose of this woman. But gentlemen, she was here, and she had a right to be here, and she had a right to be here without being killed. This was a coldblooded, middle-of-the-night killing that you cannot overlook. You've got to face...
Died. Norman Ernest Brokenshire, 66, one of the best-known U.S. radio voices in the 1920s and early '30s, who started at New York's WJZ as a news commentator ("How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, how do you dor), went on to become a $1,300-a-week announcer for network variety shows (the Chesterfield Hour, Major Bowes' Amateur Hour) until 1934, when heavy drinking cost him his job, after which he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, made a brief comeback in network radio, then went into semiretirement as a part-time announcer for local stations near...