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Wild Oats. In Brooklyn, Mosha Byron, reprimanded for shooting craps in his 100th year and arrested for illegally practicing medicine in his 102nd, was hauled into court again, this time for cursing a neighbor, was ordered by a doubting judge to go home and get the birth certificate to prove...
...Immortal Lovers wipes the paraffin smirk off their faces. As in her past performances (lives of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Oscar Wilde, George Sand, et al.), Biographer Winwar makes the facts highly readable. The true love story of the Brownings is just as exciting as the semi-fictional versions of it, and far more warmly human...
...Instead, his trusty putter began to vibrate under the tension, shook him into misses for a costly 75. Demaret backed into the title by two strokes. His winning score for 72 holes: a five-under-par 283. The runners-up: Ferrier (285), Snead (287), and Hogan and Texas' Byron Nelson (288 apiece...
...history to be a good biography. But since Ariel was highly readable, and since a lot of people proved to be curious about romantic poets, Maurois soon had a hit on his hands. With this encouragement he turned out polished and readable, and somewhat empty lives of Disraeli, Byron and Dickens. Reread today, such Maurois works seem pretty thin; where the peerless Lytton (Eminent Victorians) Strachey was genuinely witty, Maurois was merely suave; where Strachey conveyed the quality and texture of a period, Maurois lacquered his work with the weary irony of the worldly boulevardier...
VARSITY FENCING--Minor H--Forrest L. Carter '51, Raymond W. Frankmann, Jr. '50, John H. Gay '50, Jay J. Levine '50, Christopher Martin '52, Byron B. Morton, Jr. '52, Winfred Overholser, Jr. '51, Raymond K. Pierce '51, John W. Smith '52, Eric T. Sollce '53, Joseph S. Vera '50, and Robert J. Nicol '52, Manager...