Word: eves
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...critical works about him. Houghton's most famous is the Keats' collection, the world's best, much of which is one exhibit in the Library's special Keats room. The collection has many of the poet's letters and the manuscripts of a number of his poems, notably "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "To Autumn." Other collections range from John Donne and George Herbert to E. A. Robinson and Thomas Wolfe. Philip Hofer's Graphic Arts Collection is another prize feature of the Library--a summary of the best in book design from Babylonian cuneiform tablets to the latest...
Tonight's contest will be the second in a five-game road jaunt for the varsity five. Three games in the West against Michigan State, Ohio State, and Western Reserve after Christmas, the last on New Year's Eve, will procede the Crimson's next appearance in the Boston area...
Corpus Separatum. The Israel-Jordan agreement was spurred by U.N. action. On the eve of adjournment at Flushing Meadows last week, the General Assembly approved a plan to internationalize Jerusalem. By its terms the city would become a corpus separatum governed by the U.N.'s Trusteeship Council. The area would embrace the walled Old City, the bustling New City and such nearby holy places as Bethlehem...
Playing on the same bill at the Metropolitan is the Preston Sturges comedy, "The Lady Eve." This film, also an old-timer, is a sophisticated piece about a confidence woman and the heir to the fortunes of Pike's Pale, "The Ale that Won for Yale." The dialogue abounds in double entendres of the highest order. At the same time, "The Lady Eve" has its share of slapstick, too. Henry Fonda, as the slow-witted heir, takes no less than nine pratfalls in the course of the movie...
Barbara Stauwyek does an excellent job as the soft-hearted gold digger. Needless to say, eventually she really falls for the guy. No one will mind this, however, because it's just more comic material for Preston Sturges to work with. There's no "hoke" in "The Lady Eve." Far from...