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That night there was a deathly stillness when Franklin turned up at the casino. Franklin sauntered over to his table, picked up the Correo Andaluz and started reading. One Alcalá cattle dealer, braver than his fellows, crossed the smoky room, cleared his throat and said: "Listen Seňor Franklino. If Plácido fails to show up another time, just let me know. I'll bring down my team of working mules from the farm. Please never do that again. It's bad for the fiesta." Franklin rose, bowed gravely and replied: "Thank you, senor...
...people all over the world were better informed about the other people they call foreigners, it should become a less fearful, if not braver world. That is the modest hope of Editor Markel and I.P.I...
...Bridget Lovat, the principal characters in Ivy Compton-Burnett's new opus, are more modern. They survive the news that they are father & daughter as well as man & wife, and become quite reconciled to the idea. "Such unions do no harm in nature," says Edmund. "Perhaps people are braver than they used to be," says Bridget. "What a change, and in a way an interest for us!'' says Edmund's brother, who finds normal country life a bit dull anyway...
...Braver men than I have tried to summarize the plot of "The Country Wife" and failed. Suffice it to say that there are three parts to the story: the first concerns a young country-bred wife (Margery Pinchwife) who is trying to escape from the close confinement exercised by her aging roue husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order...
Elizabeth Heaton '51 is Radcliffe's new Student Council President, retiring chief executive Joan Braver man announced at a mass meeting held in Agassiz Theatre from 1 to 2 p.m. yesterday. Miss Heaton, of Wellesley and Briggs Hall, moves up from NSA Delegate to her present position...