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Died. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, 93, seraphic Yankee poisoner who made a profession of arsenic and old lace from 1907 to 1916 at her tiny Windsor, Conn., old folks' home, where more than 20 paying guests-as well as her two husbands-died under suspicious circumstances, who stood trial and was found guilty of murder in one specific instance, but whose sentence was commuted from hanging to life imprisonment in 1919; in Connecticut Valley Hospital, Middletown, to which she was committed in 1924 as insane...
Yesterday, it was learned that a second student travel organization wrote the HSA about inaccuracies in the 1962 "Let's Go." Miss Archer Brown, manager of the information department of the Council on Student Travel, said she told the HSA on March 30: "Frankly, we feel a little hesitant about your current publication because of the numerous errors and omissions that some of our staff have found after careful reading...
Like many Greek tragedies, Philoctetes draws upon the Homeric epos for characters and situations. At the outset, the great Greek archer, Philoctetes, is languishing in a cave on Lemnos, abandoned by his army because of an infected foot. Odysseus and Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, come to Lemnos to persuade Philoctetes to give them the bow of Heracles. Without it, says the seer Helenus, the Greeks will never capture Troy. After many a stratagem and one deus ex machina, all three embark for Troy with the bow. Sophocles artfully balances these three characters so that at one pole Odysseus represents super...
Years later, on the way to Troy, the archer accidentally scratched his foot with one of the poisoned arrows and was cast into exile by his companions, who found the smell of the wound un bearable. When the Greeks learned that only Hercules' arrow could win the war. they persuaded Philoctetes to rejoin the battle, and he promptly slew Trojan Enemy Paris. See SCIENCE, Philoctetes Was Here...
...prominence in the Mediterranean world. According to Homer's Iliad, what made the mighty Achilles sulk in his tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances he had spurned. But after that, mythology's Baedeker records little of Chryse, and some time about...