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Paradoxically, the triumphant Bunnies managed to amass their 1,144 point total without a single sole championship in any of the major sports. In those fields, football was won by Kirkland, basketball by Leverett and Lowell, squash and crew by Eliot, and baseball by Eliot and Winthrop...
Settled in suburban Douglaston, L.I., Grosz has made a moderately successful effort to amass the Almighty Dollar. "Money is no fraud," says he; "ideas, on the contrary, can be more or less deceptive." Grosz packed away his worst memories as soon as he got off the boat; took to painting Cape Cod sand dunes and plump, salable nudes like the one who has been haunting him since boyhood. For a whue he even tried illustrating for Esquire. On off days Grosz still occupies himself with elaborate horror pictures, but now there is almost an old-fashioned air about them...
Almost anyone can produce a convincing forgery with an old thieves' trick-copying a signature upside down.* But forgers who can amass riches are rare. As every detective-story reader knows, most such slippery geniuses blossom in foreign capitals. But last week, with pardonable pride, the Federal Bureau of Investigation added to the list of master forgers the name of Chicago-born Alexander D. L. Thiel (rhymes with steal...
This wrecking process had two objectives: 1) to put a long-term strain on Italy's resources; 2) to hamper the enemy's efforts to amass sufficient reserves of food, munitions and transport for the defense of the islands which cannot long subsist on their own resources...
Murder by Research. Lewis' characters have as little inwardness as a fudge sundae. All the psychological conflicts have happened on minus Page One. How Gideon Planish gets as far as he does is a commentary on U.S. middle-class culture, but how Colonel Marduc managed to amass his pre-eminence only Lewis knows. In place of people, Lewis offers types, murderous research in the field of philanthropy, and a lambasting...