Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearance: Wears plain, ready-made suits and an almost perpetual grin, been described as Socialism's happy pixie. He has an obstinate cowlick that hangs over his forehead. Complained Tory M.P. Sir Waldron Smithers last week: never brushes his hair or gets it cut. How can he get abroad and win that respect or give that leadership which is so necessary if this country is to survive...
...outdone by Hollywood, or anyone else for that matter, this year's Nisman Fellows have submitted them-selves to the polltaker to determine the winners of the 1951 Harvard Square Academy Awards in erudition, disquisition and just plain good fellowship...
...Berlin's bustling Schloss Strasse last week, worshipers streamed silently into St. Matthew's Evangelical Church. With none of the vestibule chatter common to most church crowds, they seated themselves on straight-backed wooden chairs facing a simple black cross above the plain altar. They did not sing, give hearty responses or even say amen. The only voice was that of elderly (59) Pastor Otto Bartel, who for 29 years has ministered to Berlin's deaf-mutes...
...fourth year in a row, its annual Festival of Contemporary Arts. Before the festival is over, the university expects to play host to 30,000 people-not a big crowd for a homecoming football game, but a big gathering for a culture fest on Illinois' eastern plain...
...been common practice to categorize the Radcliffe girl as intelligent, occasionally attractive, but generally plain. As one wag put it, "You only look at a Radcliffe girl once." This has been modified somewhat recently, but the second annual "Drumbeats and Song" production in Sanders Theatre Friday night presented something entirely new. There are those among the Annex group who are talented...