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...call from his Aunt Dahlia, who invites him down to her estate near Market Snodsbury. Who should be there but Madeline Bassett and her new fiancé, the seventh Earl of Sidcup, not to mention the beautiful but bossy Florence Craye, a millionaire businessman called L.P. Runkle, and a bounder by the name of Bingley. Add to that Bertie, a mobile magnet for disaster, and you have literary lunacy of a high order-P.G. Wodehouse in near-perfect form. In no time at all, the Earl of Sidcup has caught Bertie in an innocent but compromising position with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wodehouse Aeternus | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...Crimson almost conjured up the tying run in the bottom of the ninth with two men out. Kevin Hampe walked on a 3 and 2 pitch as a pinch-hitter, then stole second. Tim Bilodeau followed with a high bounder over the pitcher's mound and miraculously beat the throw to first by diving at the bag from five feet away to put runners on first and third...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Pan Am Eliminates Harvard, 1-0 | 6/15/1971 | See Source »

Last week. Cornell's leading scorer and re-bounder 6' 5" center Bill Sehwatrzkopf, paced his teammates with 22 points and 11 rebounds. If Harvard can successfully control him with tough defense and effectively screen him away from the boards, it will severely reduce the Big Red's offensive potential...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Battle for Seventh Place Cornell Hosts Cagers In Ivy Game Tonight | 2/20/1970 | See Source »

...rebounds, where Harvard won the game, Royer led the pack with 16. Kanuth followed with 12 and Gallagher was able to grab 11. Manuel, the leading Wesleyan bounder, was able to come up with only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Tops Wesleyan In Hardwood Tilt, 83-73 | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

Said: "We had lots of servants in baggy silk trousers-one was an ex-eunuch." In the simple, gruffly tender relationship between the stray orphan and the fugitive bounder, Boy combines the charm of Huck Finn with the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: African Odyssey | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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