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Journalist Bill Buckley likes it out in the cold, out where the Red menace blows. Novelist Buckley finds the world more ambiguous. His new espionage thriller stars the Buckley-like hero Blackford Oakes. He is the same CIA man of the author's previous novel, Saving the Queen. The time of Stained Glass is 1952, the place West Germany; the plot backlights Buckley's faith in Western culture and his embattled vision of its decline in an age of nuclear realism and détente...
...much of a threat to Norman Mailer (yet another mayoral ex-candidate). Buckley's spy thriller is set in the early '50s, when Stalin was in the Kremlin, Joe McCarthy was "going after the fags" in the State Department and all was right with the cold war. Blackford Oakes, Yale '51, is pipelined by the old-boy network straight into the CIA. His assignment proves crucial to the survival of the West. Someone close to England's Queen Caroline is leaking American H-bomb secrets to the reds. With nary a false step, Oakes foils this...
Chris Nielsen disposed of Dave Johnson at the third position, 6-2, 6-3, to initiate a string of straight-set Harvard victories, classmate Joe Cavanagh whipped John Blackford at four, 6-3, 6-0, and Cavanagh's roommate, junior Bill Brock, defeated Sewall Corkran, 6-3, 6-0 to clinch the match...
Harvard's Dave Fish and Williams' Dave Blackford provided the excitement of the day in a thrilling match that went the five-game limit. After rushing to within one game of victory. Fish faltered and fell...
...House of Lords, high-spirited Cinemactress Vivien Leigh listened impatiently to debate on the proposed demolition of London's 122-year-old St. James's Theatre (which Actress Leigh had protested two days before by marching down the Strand ringing a handbell). Fuming as Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman...