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...MOST PLASTERED JOKE TELLER AWARD: To Norman Mailer '41, who told an incomprehensible zinger with a punch line implicating "one philosopher and two perverts," but still managed to pronounce Cousin, Cousine and Lina Wertmuller with the proper accents...
...Grambling's students come from poor families, and Grambling itself is not much richer. Modern six-story dorms have replaced the converted prison barracks that once housed students, and new classroom buildings have sprouted in what was once farm land. Yet Grambling still looks like a poor cousin of the originally all-white Louisiana Tech. University, only three miles away...
...Cousin, Cousine. At the Orson Welles, all week...
...cousin Gwen Raverat in a family memoir describes Darwin on his fourteenth birthday "lying with his long Etonian legs on the sofa in a negligent, grown-up attitude." While at Eton, Darwin engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers the best. He practiced for these contests by seeing if he could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized...
Carter, who joined Edwards in a successful effort to revoke the 1965 rule, no longer belongs to the Plains congregation and refused comment. His cousin Hugh, a deacon of the church, said that he felt sure the President was "very deeply hurt." Miss Lillian telephoned Edwards to tell him she was "broken-hearted...