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Figure of Fun. For a time Queen Victoria had a taste for Tupper's poetry. When the Princess Royal married Prince Frederick of Prussia, she commanded lyrics from Tupper, and ordered him to the palace to present the bride & groom with specially bound copies of Proverbial Philosophy. The bard got a private audience and passed the books direct from his own common paws into the royal hands. He was told it was an honor that had been done to only one other British writer-George III was once as gracious to Dr. Samuel Johnson. Americans were impressed with Tupper...
...other hand, your stomach is strong enough to take the parfumerie with the campanile, the tinsel bambino with the David of Michelangelo, the abysmal filth with the supreme sunlight-then make your pilgrimage to the cities of Italy, remembering always the words of a loth Century Irish bard...
This year's squad, although riddled by graduation, is bolstered by a backlog of bard work: four weeks of practice in the blockhouse on converted basketball courts, and eight weeks of practice early last fall. Many of the nine man spring trip squad have had little varsity competition, and the rigorous seven day preseason schedule will provide valuable match experience...
Hugh Foster will play his power game in the number one spot. Hugh Nawn plays a tricky game at number two. Jim Bacon and Bill Flagg, at positions three and four, add drive and bard-hitting power to the team...
...Whitebait in the New Statesman and Nation: "What sort of music it is, whether jaunty or sad, fierce or provoking, it would be hard to reckon; but under its enthrallment, the camera comes into play . . . The unseen zither-player ... is made to employ his instrument much as the Homeric bard did his lyre." Said Alan Dent in the Illustrated London News: "The real hero I should call the unseen zither-player...