Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...renowned for his eccentricity as for his talent, Canadian-born Concert Pianist Glenn Gould, 28, often bundles up against the cold in mid-August. One day a year ago, as Gould tells it, he was sitting in the Manhattan offices of Steinway & Sons when William Hupfer, Steinway's chief technician, strode in overflowing with a he-man heartiness usually reserved for college reunions. On previous occasions, according to Gould, Hupfer had subjected him to "unduly strong handshakes and other demonstrative physical acts." This time, Gould claims, Hupfer approached him from behind and "recklessly or negligently let both forearms down...
...Crimson was not dead yet, chiefly because the Elis uncharacteristically fumbled away another break. On the next series of downs, Wolfe intercepted a short, wobbly Ted Halaby pass, but Lou Muller fumbled on the following play, and Glenn Haughie recovered for Harvard on the 49. Ravenel entered the game at this point, and the Crimson showed some signs of life...
Young Glaser, a bachelor, climbs low-resistance mountains ("I'm not the rope and piton type of climber"). He is still devoted to music, and may spend part of the $43,627 Nobel Prize on a really good viola. His boss, Chancellor Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel prizewinner himself, says, not wholly in jest, that he realized Glaser was highly eligible for a Nobel Prize and enticed him to Berkeley just in time to get some of the credit for the University of California...
...questions of Protestants (and some Catholics) who had heard Catholic Candidate Jack Kennedy pledge repeatedly that his church had no power to influence a Catholic's political decisions. As news of the first edict spread, Midwestern newspapers were peppered with questioning protests. In Denver widely respected Methodist Bishop Glenn R. Phillips announced that "on Nov. 8 I shall not mark my ballot for a Roman Catholic candidate for the presidency," added later that the Puerto Rican bishops' letter had doubly confirmed his stand...
Jarring tackles by Jim Nelson and Glenn Haughie were bright spots in the Crimson defense. On offense, Repsher reeled off several good gains despite a painful chest injury that would have kept most players inactive...