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...became a duel between Crab-tree's passes (seven caught by End Ron Stover) and White's line plunges. In the third quarter, Oregon moved to the Buckeye 18-yard line, but Halfback Tom Morris missed a field goal. Minutes later, running mainly behind All-American Guard Aurelius Thomas, White bucked the ball to the Oregon 17. Then Reserve Halfback Don Sutherin thrice flexed his kicking leg and booted a field goal. That squeezed out a Buckeye victory...
...questions of appearance v. reality, theory v. practice, but his chief question is: How may half-baked youth be seasoned to maturity? The recipe culled from his books: 1) the skepticism of Montaigne, 2) the craft of Machiavelli, 3) the self-reliance of Emerson, 4) the stoicism of Marcus Aurelius, and 5) the patience of Job. Cozzens' heroes do not "have fun"; they cannot "not give a damn"; they are trying to be responsible grownups in a confusing and dangerous world...
...necked emperors. Reformation heretics. Enlightenment atheists and revolutionaries without end. So long is the Vatican's memory that an insider can say casually of Wyszynski: "This man is the only free, active, dynamic cardinal in Russian-held territory since the Czars in 1430 ousted Cardinal Isidor, whom Pope Aurelius IV had sent to Moscow...
...drive them back with drawn swords. At a huge reception in the Louvre many of the 2,000-odd distinguished guests vied with each other for vantage points on the pedestals of world-famed works of art as museum guards shook their heads in despair. "I expected Marcus Aurelius to topple over on me at any moment," said one grande dame nervously. As the party broke up, even the footmen and wine stewards toasted the great occasion in surplus wines and spirits...
Married. Olivia de Havilland, 38, two-time Oscar-winning cinemactress (To Each His Own, The Heiress); and Pierre Galante, 45, writer for the French picture magazine Paris-Match; she for the second time (her first: Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, one-shot author of the novel Delilah), he for the first; in Ivoy-le-Marron, France...