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...into his little laboratory in University College, London. He tore up some documents and opened the petcock of a single Bunsen burner. It was enough for his final experiment. At week's end in St. Pancras court, where Sir Bernard had often given expert medical testimony, Coroner W. Bentley Purchase returned "with reluctance" a verdict of suicide...
BERNARD SHAW (242 pp.)-Eric Bentley -New Directions...
Pose of Arrogance. Worshipful Critic Eric Bentley, who has tried to truss Shavian doctrine into a system of thought, is one of the few who still pay unflagging homage to Shaw's ideas. For him Shaw is not merely a brilliant playwright who handled the English language with a clarity and wit unrivaled since Swift; Shaw is also a profound thinker whose "pose of arrogance was a deliberate strategy in an utterly altruistic struggle" to irritate men into thought. But the "utterly altruistic struggle" failed, and there was Shaw's tragedy: he, the court jester, was idolized...
Leverett's Colin Bentley plunged over the goal line in the first period to begin the one-sided scoring. Then Tom Connolly recovered a fumble and streaked across the Dunster goal only to have the ball called back. A moment later, however, Leverett scored on Bob Zimmerman's pass to Pete Duble...
Leverett: le, Duble; lt, Sweeney; lg, Neville; c, Thorne; rg, Foster; rt, Chilcott; re, MacVicker; qb, Maier; lhb, Shaefer; rhb, Zimmerman; fb, Bentley...