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...better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran fire-buff smells smoke...
...Grounds have been scraping and washing the walls and ceiling of the transept, which divides Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre, to prepare the surfaces for painting. The ceiling, now a dull mahogany from age, will be restored to its original reddish-gold wood stain, while walls will be painted buff brown with colored striping...
...arms, some of whom were billeted in the four Harvard Halls standing at that time, some in abandoned "Tory Row" houses, and the rest in barracks which bulged out on the Common. Then came that memorable day, July 2, 1775, when General Washington--decked out in "blue cost, buff under-dress, and rich epaulette on each shoulder"--marched down the road from Watertown. At this point, historians have gone to all extremes to affirm or deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather...
...City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about as bad. One morning, on a bet, a lady known as Prairie Rose walked down its main street in the buff, waving a six-gun in each hand to shoot out any eye that peeked. Thanks to her dead-shot reputation, the prairie Godiva did not have to fire a shot...
Even by jungle standards, the Camaiura are a primitive tribe, lacking such widespread items of Amazonian culture as blow guns and fish poisons. They are among the nakedest of savages: adult women wear only a G-string, men and children go buff bare...