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...Nina Epton-World...
...deny that they are consummate kiss-and-tell artists. Over the centuries, they have told all in diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and the social chronicles of boudoir, salon and brothel. With one eye on the lofty mystery of love and the other hovering at the keyhole, British Author Nina Epton scans the Gallic love parade in an amusing though helter-skelter review...
Romantic love did not always exist, says Author Epton. It was invented by the troubadours, the hobohemian minstrel poets of the late Middle Ages. Medieval ladies spent half their time racing across the jousting fields with buckets of hot water, bathing and bandaging strange men. It remained for the troubadours to glamorize the knight-lady relationship and raise it to the level of a semimystical romantic cult. For all their platonic, fig-leafy sentiments, the troubadours themselves were a crudely carnal lot, and they gave romance in France a lasting split personality: love and marriage became contradictory terms...
...question, "Resolved: That the chain stores are detrimental to the best interests of the American people." The two Harvard students who urged this point of view were G.F. Oest '33 and R.M. Alt '32. The negative side of the question was presented by George Copeland and Hicks Epton, both law students in the University of Oklahoma. Professor N.C. Maynard of Tufts College made the opening speech and was presiding officer during the debate...
...Oklahoma debaters will be George Copeland and Hicks Epton, and they will be accompanied by their coach, Walter Emery. Captain Copeland is a four-year debater, senior in the law school, member of Phi Delta Phi, national honorary legal fraternity, and member of Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary fraternity. Epton is a three-year debater, junior lawyer, president of the oratorical council, and a member of the same legal fraternity as his colleague...