Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True Love's Mating. The Prospero of Author Godden's piece is a Scot named van Loomis, the onetime Earl of Spey, who has been done out of his estates and perquisites by a younger brother; these 20 years he has been living as lord of a tiny Pacific isle, Terraqueous. He has his Ariel there too, the "tricksy spirit" of his bidding, a native boy named Filipino, for whom "freedom" would be a chance to explore the fascinating vistas he has glimpsed in old copies of LIFE and Vanity Fair. And the new Prospero has his Caliban...
Partners in Crime. In Oklahoma City, in a robbery attempt, an armed thug and his helpful black, chow dog beat and bit Gas Station Attendant Earl Noseff...
Chivalry in war is a rapidly declining convention, but it dies hardest among what Ernest Bevin has called the "trade union of generals." Field Marshal Auchinleck, in a foreword to the book, salutes Rommel "as a soldier and a man" and deplores the passing of chivalry. Field Marshal Earl Wavell rates him "among the chosen few, among the very brave, the very true." And Biographer Young rather gratuitously remarks that he just can't help liking German generals. His Rommel is well-written, brisk, and touched with flashes of nice humor; in every other respect, it might have been...
...missed its greatest opportunity when it came up with a rather crude satire of the column, "Impressions of Parliament," a pleasantly flippant account of the Parliamentary proceedings of the week. The effect of giving the legislators such names as Mr. K. G. Skeemer, Mr. Upton AdamBoyse, Lord Elpus, and Earl Ebyrd is simply to crush whatever little joke is being hatched at that point. The vast humor opportunities of dealing really lightly with British governmental and social foibles are almost buried...
...other Forest Hills finalist, Herb Flam, 22, was ranked No. 2, followed by Wimbledon Champion Budge Patty, 26, and U.S. Davis Cupper Ted Schroeder, 29. Others of the top ten: Gardnar Mulloy, Bill Talbert, Dick Savitt, Earl Cochell, Vic Seixas and Tom Brown...