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Philip Alston Stone '62 is a native of Oxford, Mississippi and a godson of William Faulkner, which explains why No Place to Run concerns itself with derring-do and decadence in Dixie. The South is, of course, just about the best place in the world for an American writer to...
Greeting Eaton, Mikoyan cooed: "When Mr. Khrushchev talked about you, his whole face was beaming." Now in his twilight years, Cyrus Eaton is the archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he...
Only one new quiz show was announced, Brains and Brawn, in which intellectual quiz athletes team up with actual musclemen. (After the brains match memories in familiar fashion, the brawnier contestants match skills in athletic derring-do.) An announcer's throbbing voice pledged continued loyalty to Twenty-One. But...
To plain Sicilians, such legends are not old wives' tales but part of everyday life -along with Christian miracles, Saracen tales of derring-do, and glittering fantasies of the U.S. way of life. The background against which these visions take shape is composed of blasted heaths and stark, sun...
"Bus Run." Back in Fleet Street, Barber's "triumphant arrival" at the Pole in a U.S. Navy plane won a game salute from the Daily Mirror (circ. 4,658,793). But Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4.024,800), the Mail's archrival in the derring-do dateline...