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...applicants for the Moscow assignment, were exonerated by the tribunal, which judged him "weak" but not overtly queer. However, admitted the report, Vassall's young colleagues in the embassy ridiculed his "effeminate" ways and called him "Vera." The passionate Pole soon guessed his secret, and life began anew for Vera Vassall. Eager to share his new conquest, Sig introduced Vassall to other gay types. "I shall never forget," Vassall wrote to an older man in London, "the many unusual and extraordinary happenings that go on here, which must come to few people." He did not apparently regard...
...have frequently made reference to the historic Armory Show of 1913, when modern art first made its shocking impact on America. It was such a watershed event that, as long ago as 1956, our editors put down in their "futures book" a resolve to seek out and show anew the pictures that created such a fuss. The idea occurred at about the same time to a museum official in Utica, N.Y., who early this year was able to reassemble about 300 of the original works for a showing in Utica. This week the show returns to the original armory...
...ribbing when the Indiana Society of Washington named him "Hoosier of the Year." But Shoup, a native of Battle Ground, Ind., took it in stride when the band played Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk. In his acceptance speech, the general warmed anew to the pleasures of the great outdoors, complimented Wife Zola, his faithful camping companion on many a ... But then he stopped himself. "What have I said? I hope the whole world doesn't take off on a camping spree next week...
...evenings at a speakeasy where he befriends a lonely elderly millionaire who has spent 35 years writing a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The two become friends. Pat regains dignity, confidence, and the desire to succeed. Then, unsolicited, the Hawthorne scholar gives Pat $10,000 to start his life anew...
...from fondness for overworked students to earnest boosterism ("We must stimulate interest in Shakespeare"). Such benevolence is subject to whim: sudden crackdowns make one year's gut next year's skull-cracker. Thus, each fall the avid "gut-seeker," as Harvard calls him, has to sniff out anew the telltale signs: heavy class attendance, especially by football players, and a proneness to refer to the course in slang, such as "Spots and Dots" (modern art), "Cops and Robbers" (criminology), "Pots and Pans" (homemaking), "Nuts and Sluts'' (abnormal personality), "Cokes and Smokes" (religion), ''Cowboys...