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...This is the charm of spring training. Ted Williams is studying Clemens from the rightfield bullpen and slowly working his wrists. Carl Yastrzemski looks up from giving instructions to a nonroster player in a distant batting cage. And sitting in the stands, smiling softly under a baseball cap, is Cecil ("Tex") Hughson, 68, the Red Sox pitching phenom of the '40s, who wore...
Herself Defined is a book of such famous names, legendary times and places, and unconventional relationships. H.D. married British Writer Richard Aldington, had a daughter, Perdita, with Composer Cecil Gray, and possibly an affair with D.H. Lawrence. Her most enduring relationship was with Bryher, whose father was Sir John Ellerman, a self-made shipping tycoon from Hull...
...University's performance continues its dominance of the glamorous academic sweepstakes. Harvard has won 217 of the awards since English diamond miner Cecil Rhodes established the program...
...warned Thatcher that victory would not bring five years of smooth ruling. He was right. Thatcher's reshuffled Cabinet performed poorly in Parliament. An operation for a detached retina slowed her down over the summer. Scandal struck when it was revealed that Trade Minister and Tory Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson had fathered a child by his secretary. The wayward colleague eventually resigned, but Thatcher's waffling over whether he should quit did her no good. Labor rose from its electoral ashes to choose bright, eloquent Welshman Neil Kinnock, 41, as its new leader. From Thatcher's Tory...
...freshmen and the redshirts (a task force, sophomores mostly, being held out a year), the varsity formed a funnel onto the field to usher in the next generation; the pure numbers of Nebraska football players collected all in one place brought to mind both the late movie director Cecil B. De Mille...