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...three years, a Boston travel agency has sponsored a contest that gave three people--their names picked from a box--a chance to win a three-day trip for two to Bermuda by hitting a shot from half court during Harvard basketball intermissions. Over the years many have come agonizingly close, but none have actually nailed that Hoop for the Holiday...
...contributors listed in that four-volume edition, 102 were British. This reflected the insular judgment of the founding editor, a nonmusician named George Grove, one of those versatile achievers of whom the Victorian Age was justly proud. Sir George, a civil engineer, built lighthouses in Jamaica and Bermuda and worked on the British railway system. He was a self-taught Bible and music scholar who in 1852 became secretary of the Crystal Palace, a concert and exhibition hall. He wrote program notes and served as a founder and director of the Royal College of Music...
...schoolchildren, an interracial couple here and there, a sprinkling of college students and young professionals on their lunch break, and assorted religious men, women, and lay faithful. Gov. Edward King and a few local politicians came, but Mayor Kevin White, who said he'd be there, was vacationing in Bermuda instead...
Back in New York in 1916, Hartley was stunned when his German military paintings were received with hostility by a public that was increasingly anti-German. His confidence seemed shattered. He sat out the war in Provincetown and Bermuda. In 1921 he returned to Europe, wandering from Paris to Berlin to Florence to Rome...
Peter Benchley has adapted his soft core sadomasochistic novel, which offers an explanation for all those ships that supposedly disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. He suggests that on one of the out islands is an entirely unmerry band of buccaneers, living by a squalid code unchanged since their ancestors washed up there a couple of centuries ago. It is they who come out of the night to rob and murder unsuspecting voyagers, then sink their ships to conceal the evidence of piracy. Michael Caine plays a reporter who is investigating the Triangle. On a fishing trip...