Word: necks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through three furious days of politicking, not one committeeman had any real praise for Tom Dewey. Even Hugh Scott, fighting to save his own neck, scrubbed frantically to wash off the Dewey colors. Dewey, he cried, "should not, could not, and will not be a candidate in 1952 . . . We've suffered because we tried to me-too the New Deal. I announce here and now that there's an end to that." No one else had a good word for me-tooism either: most everyone talked as if the party only needed to have been forthrightly conservative...
Readers of the Saturday Evening Post would be greatly disappointed if Alexander Botts, the famed sales manager of the Earthworm Tractor Co., were not up to his neck in trouble. When last heard from (in Author William Hazlett Upson's latest story), Botts had bogged a scraper so deep in the Canadian muskeg that not even his mighty Earthworm tractor could pull it out. But Botts managed it; he used rockets, for a jet-assisted takeoff...
...freshman one mile relay team provided the 10,724 spectators with one of the biggest thrills of the day with their neck and neck race with Yale. Tom McGrath led off, ran a steady race, and passed the stick to John Packard who lost ground to Yale's Ellinger. Rounie Berman then narrowed the Elis' margin to 3 yards. Anchor man Eddie Grutsner made a gallant try for the lead but Yale's Brown finished with a 1 1/2 yard advantage. The winning time was 329.9 with Dartmouth in 3rd place. Berman noted that inexperience in competition seemed...
Last week, while 2,000 votaries shouted encouragement and police yelled threats from below, a plastered plumber named William Painter perched cheerily on Eros' neck and wings, twanged gaily on the god's bowstring, and provided one of the week's merriest, wackiest newspictures. After 40 minutes, London's firemen brought the miscreant down to earth. Next day both celebrants were resting quietly; the plumber in Brixton jail, the god in the hands of statue doctors. Damage to the god: $192. Damages to the plumber: three months in stir, and cost of the repairs...
Francis L. Kafka of Leverett House and Great Neck, N.Y.; Harvard Dramatics Club '46-47; Harvard Radio Network '47; Entertainment Committee of PBH; Varsity Cross Country '47; Varsity Track '48; Chairman Leverett House Dance Committee...