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...famed Round Table where Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other wits from The New Yorker used to dine and quip during the '20s. But that seemed to suit the crowd just fine at last week's 75th birthday party for the Algonquin Hotel. The clubby bastion of New York literati was the site of a noisy celebration for 200 guests including Humorist S.J. Perelman, Actors Kevin McCarthy and Maureen Stapleton and Cartoonist Charles Addams. "You better feel witty before you enter the place; if not, just listen," cautioned Author Norman Mailer, a self-described "Algonquin freak." Playwright Marc...
When the smoke finally cleared yesterday at Webster Field, Kirkland House (that bastion of jockism) had emerged triumphant over Winthrop (the people's choice...
...earth will disappear. We will be caught up to meet Him in the air." A seven year period of tribulation will follow the rapture. During that time, "a lot of Israelis will be converted to Christianity." At the end of seven years, great armies will attack Palestine, the bastion of Christianity--Pierce suggests the Soviet Union may be involved--and then Christ will reappear on earth with an army of saints to begin a thousand year reign. Pierce says, "It can take place at any moment. You can see the situation in the Middle East. It's by no means...
Over at that bastion of credit, the Coop, the notebook lines were double-figures deep. While most freshmen were purchasing five apiece--one per course and one to get a head start on next semester--many upperclassmen were spotted with nothing more than a can of Right Guard...
...Middle Ages, Rhodes served as a stopping point for European Crusaders, until it was taken from the Byzantine Empire in 1309 by the Christian Knights of St. John, who needed a new base after their ignominious rout from Jerusalem. The Knights refortified the island, building a huge bastion on the site of the Colossus, and withstood sieges by the Egyptians and Turks, finally surrendering in 1522 to a vastly larger Ottoman Turkish force...