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Proving there's nothing new under the sun is TIME'S reference (Dec. 30) to experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan with urea to combat tooth decay. Gaius Valerius Catullus, about 2,000 years ago, wrote: (Ad Egnatius, Canto XXXIX) ". . .We know the Spanish custom, how Spaniards clean their teeth and scour their gums with the same water that issues from their bladders. ... If your teeth are clean, we know how you have used your urine...
...made a collection of ten double-faced phonograph records, illustrating selections from the finest passages of Latin prose and poetry. Each record will be accompanied by a pamphlet giving the Latin text and idiomatic translation. The price will be $2.50 each. The passages are chosen from Plautus, Lucrotius, Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, Juvonal, and Tacitus...
...then studied law at Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. Now 65, punctual, precise, New England-ish, Guy Cox likes to fish, farm, browse through his favorite authors, who include Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Proust, Havelock Ellis...
...Gregory has published his poems in three books entitled "Chorus for Survival", "No Retreat", and "Chelsea Rooming House", which came out last year. He has contributed to the "New Masses" and the book section of the New York Herald Tribune, and has also published a collection of translations from Catullus...
...further he wrote the best of them, "Alexander's Feast," at the age of sixty-six, when the fire of most songsters has long since died. Dryden's lyric gift was constant throughout his long and varied literary career. The songs are some of them in the tradition of Catullus and Robert Herrick, some in that of the popular English plain-song. They are most exquisite when most indecent, and very beautiful both when...