Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Edward Beach, who commanded the battleship New York in 1918-19 and who wrote Navy stories for children. Ned Beach won the Navy Cross, Silver Stars and a chestful of other medals as a World War II submariner, recorded his adventures in two big-selling books, Submarine! and Run Silent, Run Deep (a novel that was made into a movie...
...Louw makes the Rock of Gibraltar look like a bowl of jelly," grumbled one Prime Minister last week at the Commonwealth conference in London. As delegate of the Union of South Africa, External Affairs Minister Eric Louw, 69, was by turns stonily silent or truculently noisy. Armed with pamphlets, books and special studies detailing the sins of the other Commonwealth countries, Louw had a ready answer to questions about his nation's racial policies. What about the untouchables in India? he would ask. Turning on Britain's Prime Minister Harold
...many a year Yalemen have carried on an ivyish debate about whether one of Yale's better-known alumni, Composer Cole Porter ('13), deserves an honorary degree, despite the fact that his accomplishments are more acoustic than academic. University officials stayed silent on the subject last week, but word leaked out that Porter, on the eve of his 67th birthday next month, will get an honorary degree (best guess: Doctor of Music) at his apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reason for the honor in absentia: Tunesmith Porter, injured badly in a 1937 spill from a horse...
...lagniappe. a Fiat, a chinchilla stole, and a week in Las Vegas were auctioned off. Benny bid $200 for the privilege of hearing himself accompany George Burns. Burns upped the bid to $500, on the condition that Benny keep silent. He played anyway, and someone threw a dime at him. Sinatra kicked ice cubes at the audience and got into a staring match with John Wayne. The gaiety, which could hardly have been surpassed at a Forty & Eight Fun Night, continued till...
...These silent screams of despair and soundless shouts of joy are what interest Author Sarraute. When Alain, launched on a long, funny story, realizes in mid-speech that his listeners are becoming bored, he cannot decide whether to aban don the story or blunder on to its now flat conclusion. When Gisele's jovial mother wants to surprise the newlyweds with a gift of leather chairs and discovers that the gift is unwanted, self-pity drowns...