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...chapter containing the least Halliburton relates a visit to Rupert Brooke's grave at Skyros. Of all the Playboy's heroes, Poet Brooke seems to be the most genuine. But Poet Byron comes a close second: "Lord Byron once wrote that he would rather have swum the Hellespont than written all his poetry. So would...
...hundreds of thousands of U. S. clubwomen already know, Playboy Halliburton did swim the Hellespont, to catch up with Byron and Leander. And the dourest male skepticism will be disarmed by our hero's frank confessions that he took a taxi over the last seven miles of his race from Marathon to Athens in the very tracks of Pheidippides; that diving for sponges in the Gulf of Gabes gave him an earache...
...BYRON...
With the "Boggar's Opera", "The Second Part" and other of John Grays' works W. A. Burden '27, has loaned to the exhibition a splendid group of Gayana. There are copies of "Achilles, an Opera". "The Distressed Wife", and "Two Epistles", as well as a number of Byron's first editions loaned by F.V. Field '27, and which include "Don Juan", "Manfred", and "Maseppa". "The Prisoner of Chillon" and a very interesting Boston edition of "The Giaour", have been added by John Potter '30, and J.S.B. Archer '30, respectively...
...this audaciously frank autobiography, the most glamorous figure since Lord Byron shares with us his confessions and his memories. ... Strange wastrel days ... flashes of long-gone frolics ... These astounding confessions bid fair to become the sensation of the literary year," said a Ladies' Home Journal advertisement in October, 1925. The article, thus heralded, appeared: it was neither rowdy nor pornographic. It was the well-mannered and suave memoirs of John Barrymore. Titillatable females who had been led to expect red-hot nights increased the circulation of the Ladies' Home Journal and were undoubtedly disappointed...