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Fairly she spoke her French, and skillfully, After the school of Stratford-at-the-Bow Parisian French...
...Single Hand." Because he had refused the oath, British law shielded him from crossexamination: a bodyguard of Scotland Yard plainclothesmen flanked him during a six-minute appearance in the witness box at London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court. Then Barrister David Calcutt, acting for the U.S., presented circumstantial evidence against the man whom U.S. authorities identified as Ray. For 90 minutes, Calcutt read into the record depositions and affidavits pointing to him as the rifleman who pulled the trigger in a second-floor bathroom of a shabby Memphis rooming house to kill King...
...Slow Bow. Karr is building a movement. Next year he will be teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, Boston's New England Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering...
...members of the Harvard boat are bow, Dave Higgins; 2, Cleve Livingston; 3, Steve Brooks; 4, Fritz Hobbs; 5, Scott Steketee; 6, Andy Larkin; 7, Curt Canning; stroke, Art Evans; cox, Paul Hoffman...
What is least important about this small, fierce novel is that it is a brilliant stunt-a male author staying undetected, for the length of a book, in the mind of a female main character. Brian Moore does not pull off his wig and bow, nor is there any impulse to applaud. Applause, of course, would mean that the deception had failed. It is, in fact, successful, and Moore earns, with great cleverness, a distinction that many writers are born with-that of being judged as a lady novelist...