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...double play. Only Dean's head and the ball arrived at second in the same painful instant, and Dean rolled onto the bag unsure of whether his hairline was still in one piece. Out came the stretchers, taking him to the hospital for tests (the next day some smart-aleck headline writer would proclaim: "X-Rays of Dean's Head Show Nothing"). Dean's brother Paul, who owned a looping curveball and the nickname Daffy, met the press later. Yes, his brother was conscious as they carted him off the field, Daffy replied; he was talking the whole time...
Certainly a part of this reaction is that Puritan guilt yanking at the American heart strings: art is supposed to be work, back-breaking, meticulous, a blood and sweat document of the starving artist. Lichtenstein seems like the smart-aleck who is getting away with cheating...
They traipsed through the forest on the many marked trails and picnicked by Aleck Meadow Reservoir where John S. Stillman '40, son of the donor of the land, condemned Harvard for its lackadaisical attitude toward the forest's upkeep...
...seems to have "all the aces," as a friend tells her, but she wonders: "What was the game?" She is still melancholic over her mother's death. She can scarcely focus on the few roles she gets. Her husband behaves either like a nagging parent or a smart-aleck child. Her friends are a menacing cadre of heartless hedonists-careless to the bone, drinking, turning on, brutalizing each other in word and sexual deed...
Legal Challenge. To Obstetrician Aleck William Bourne (now retired but a hale 82), this strict regulation seemed outrageous. In 1938 he performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl,who had been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would...