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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, 63, turned up in San Francisco to pursue her old fascination. Her Grace announced that she wants to buy one authentic stagecoach, a covered wagon that had survived an Indian attack, a saloon door (swinging) and other fond wild West relics to install for English schoolchildren at a museum of Americana at Bath...
...switch is the work of California Linguistics Expert Maurice William Sullivan, 40, whose interest in language goes back to his hitch as a marine teaching German to U.S. Navy officers during World War II. Many a degree later (B.A. and M.A. in English at Yale, Ph.D. in linguistics at Madrid, B.A. in Spanish at Puerto Rico, M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury), he took up reading theory at Hollins College and Stanford and then retired to a hilltop in California's Santa Cruz Mountains to develop his books. Distributed by McGraw-Hill, they are now used by 200,000 children...
Lowell would be the first native-born American to occupy the chair. Past Oxford Professors of Poetry have been W. H. Auden and C. Day Lewis. Norton Professor of English last year; Robert Graves is the chair's current occupant...
...Pulitzer-Prize winning poet has been the only person nominated so far for the Oxford post. It is expected that the English poet Edmund Blunden will also be put up for election, however. The choice will be made...
...political movements in history have had behind them such a high portion of their society's brains as the Kadets, who within the Russian context appeared to combine some of the characteristics of the Americans for Democratic Action and the nineteenth century English Whige...