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...were looking dark until Jim Baker iced the meet by capturing the two-mile run. Baker had been running along in second place for 15 laps, right on the shoulder of Yale's Frank Shorter. And then Baker kicked. No one had expected anything like that from the steady Englishman--a kick...
...Harvard runner, of course, is dependent on an "athletic scholarship," and so could never be in this exact dilemma. But responsibility to a team can be as binding as money, and if the meet were Harvard-Yale and the squeeze was on Englishman Jim Baker, Crimson coach Bill McCurdy admits that the balancing would be mighty fine. As it is, McCurdy has to judge between the team's versus the individual's interests several times a season when a key runner is lightly injured. Are the potential points worth the risk of greater injury...
...Church, and the French monarchs, had no counter-part in the Netherlands, and hence almost no monumental works were commissioned. But unlike anywhere else in Europe, the popularity of art among Dutch artisans and merchants supported a large number of artists producing small works in great abundance and variety. Englishman Peter Mundy, visiting Amsterdam in 1640, wrote...
HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1930-1939, edited by Nigel Nicolson. A rare and engaging eyewitness account of the turbulent '30s, culled from the correspondence and journals of a civilized Englishman who seemingly went everywhere and knew everybody...
Gutenberg Bibles are rare as the printings of William Caxton, the first Englishman to set his language in movable type. Both are as common as telephone books compared to a handwritten Caxton manuscript. When the Englishman's 15th century translation of the first nine books of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, a series of moralizing fables, was sold at auction in London's Sotheby's (TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page...