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Some of the other Houses have not yet cast their productions, but Eliot plans to present Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" on December 17, Kirkland will stage John Dryden's "Amphitryon" and Winthrop is considering William Congreve's "Love for Love...
...with English letters or natural science while rusticating or ruminating at either place, for he would not have said that Oxford has the edge in poetry, nor would he have failed to recognize the distinction of Cambridge in the field of science. Can Oxford possibly match Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge . . . or Bacon, Harvey, Darwin...
...Christmas morning, Night Watchman Andrew Hislop, long used to such sounds, came upon a startling sight: there were marks on the carpet indicating that a heavy object had been dragged down the altar steps, through the transept, past the memorial to Dryden and the graves of Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson, to a side door near the Poets' Corner. Hislop rushed to a phone, called the police. "The Stone is gone," he cried, "the coronation Stone...
This letter, over the signature of Baptist Missionary Dryden L. Phelps, appeared in the November issue of the pro-Communist U.S. monthly Soviet Russia Today. Last week the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society's board announced that it had voted unanimously to recall Dr. Phelps and his wife "for conference...
...packs of beagles, poodles, terriers and collies had failed to follow the leopard's spoor. The publicity-conscious Denver Post got into the act by flying a pack of Colorado cougar dogs to the scene. Wild at this poaching, the Daily Oklahoman immediately sent a special plane to Dryden, Texas, got a pack of hounds guaranteed to have chased pumas in old Mexico. As darkness fell on the third excited day, the leopard was still loose. But according to early information, none of the hunters had yet shot another...