Word: ham
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...John Seldon (M) defeated John Rauk 15-8, 7-15, 15-12, 16-15. The '54 squad still had a chance when Matt Reynolds (H) defeated Ed Fay 16-15, 15-10, 15-8. But, in the last set, Dave Jeffries (M) defeated Ham Forster 11-15, 15-12, 15-9, 9-15, 15-10, to win the match...
...wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...next play after the kickoff, Princeton's right inside Ham Bothfeld kicked from 30 yards out. A Crimson halfback got his head on the ball, but not quite enough to clear the shot, which deflected into top of the goal...
Success, his boundless faith in himself, and his instinct for defending Li'l Abner to the death, involved him in another conflict-a remarkable feud with his former employer Ham Fisher. Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, (to put it mildly) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated. Fisher, a man of Roman selfesteem, considered Capp an ingrate and a whippersnapper, and watched his rise to fame with unfeigned horror...
Capp sniped at Fisher through Li'l Abner. When Fisher had his nose remodeled, Capp gleefully insinuated a horse named "Ham's Nose-bob" into the strip. Last April he wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly about a cartoonist who had once employed him. He named no names, simply titled his piece, "I Remember Monster." The sound of battle finally became too loud, and the respective syndicates called for a peace treaty-which was gravely consummated last August by proxies for each side...