Word: boons
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...experimental operation. It is, he estimates, suitable for only about one in eight of the arthritic patients who would have some kind of joint surgery anyway. But other surgeons are trying it hopefully. For patients so crippled that they could not even tie shoes, moderate relief is a boon. A few, like the Iowa barber, are able to write again two weeks after the operation...
...exhibition itself has been a boon to scholarship as well as esthetics. Gathered by arrangement with the Italian government, the show went first to London's Victoria and Albert Museum. There, Curator of Sculpture John Pope-Hennessy, who selected the parts of the show that came from outside Italy, was able to make comparisons never before possible. As a result, about 30 attributions have been corrected...
MARTYN GREEN'S TREASURY OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN (717 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $ 15). A boon to bathtub bassos of willing voice and weak memory: the complete librettos, with piano arrangements, of eleven of the best G & S operettas. With charming illustrations by Gilbert and annoying sketches by a modern artist, Lucille Corcos...
Both Munro and Guyda expressed delight that there is such enthusiasm on the two squads. They both agree that the added practice will be a great boon to next fall's varsity. Munro feels that although past teams have not been greatly hurt by the lack of spring practice, they have been at a disadvantage when they played teams like Yale who have a regular spring practice...
...proved a faithful couple and produced five sons (Thomas was the second). But the discovery of his father's misbehavior so shocked Lawrence that he forswore sex. He turned to digging up the past as an archaeologist, becoming an expert on crusaders' castles, an Arabic linguist, and boon companion to Arabs, including handsome young Sheik Ahmed, who (Nutting notes) may be the subject of Pillars' dedicatory love poem. Currently, Nutting is acting as adviser to Hollywood Producer Sam Spiegel, now photographing a $6,000,000 epic of Lawrence of Arabia...