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...Blyth plays the slutty princess of Samarkand with a dead pan and what sounds very much like a runny nose. David Farrar is an ideal match for her as he slogs stupidly through the role of Sir Guy of Devon, a Crusader even more preposterous than the Crusades themselves. Genghis Khan, one of the great leaders and tacticians of history, is portrayed as a mean, irritable, slow-witted braggart who doesn't talk too good...
Full-fledged towns such as Redwater (pop. 3,600), Leduc (pop. 1,500) and Devon (pop. 2,400) have mushroomed in the countryside. Pipelines crisscross the grainfields; grazing cattle placidly drink out of the safety pools around burning-off oil wells. Oil exploration teams roam tirelessly on the rolling, almost treeless prairie of the south, among the mixed farms and forests of mid-province and through the wilderness of northern woods and lakes. The brisk, winy aroma of prosperity...
CATHARINE M. BOYD Devon...
Gerald Richmond of 134 Devon St., Dorchester; Boston Public Latin. Paul B. Rosenberg of 30 Claflin Rd., Brookline; Brookline High. David Sabsay of 81 Russell St., Waltham; Waltham High. Sidney Shapire of 73 Phillips St., Boston; Boston Public Latin. Edward L. Snow of 53 Clark Rd., Revere; Revere High. Thomas Sobel of 26 Cornanba St., Roslindale; Boston Public Latin...
...elected Fellow of the Royal Society, where he knew John Dryden and Christopher Wren. No man to take irretrievable sides in 17th Century politics, he not only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans, who had "a fungous nose . . . kissed the King's hand and rubbed his nose with it, which disturbed the King, but cured [Mr. Evans...