Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhat nearer to Widener than to Boylston Hall squats a dragon, his squarish maw gaping in anger, or majesty, or perhaps in pain. On his broad back rests an erect ten-ton marble slab, inscribed with attractive Chinese figures. Fashioned in Tientsin, he was shipped to this country by Chinese alumni in China, to be presented on the second day of Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in September...
...Boing Boing Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). Gerald and "The Election," "The 51st Dragon." "Ballet Lesson." Air Power (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). "The Japanese Perimeter," the story of how the U.S. Navy and Air Force crushed enemy carrier forces at Midway...
...years ago to the middle-class family of a British Civil Servant, out of a tradition identified more with Army service and Toryism than with class-consciousness. His older brother Arthur, an African expert, is today a Tory, and his sister married a Conservative M.P. Hugh attended the rigorous Dragon School at Oxford and went on to head his class at Winchester. At New College, Oxford, he took a first in "P.P.E."," Politics, Philosophy and Economics...
Christmas-paroled (last on a list of 66 prisoners) in Indiana: onetime Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, D. C. Stephenson, 63, who had served 30-odd years for second-degree murder, been sprung in 1950 but was clapped back into prison for jumping his parole...
Died. Pio Baroja y Nessi, 83, famed old dragon of Spanish literature (The Struggle for Life, Youth and Egolatry), whose bitter, free-thinking attacks on church and state kept him in hot water, and whose hard-scratch realism in more than 100 novels made him a candidate (1946) for the Nobel Prize; in Madrid. A lifelong bachelor (he thought Spanish women were churchbound, thus intellectually inferior), Don Pio practiced medicine less than two years, ran a bakery with his brother, job-hunted across Europe, finally took up writing ("a means of living without a livelihood"). His harsh, simply written novels...