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Dashiell Hammett might be called the principal love of Hellman's busy love life. He is credited with inventing the hard-boiled detective with the dour, daring Continental Op of Red Harvest and Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon. A clear, forceful prose stylist, Hammett was also a loner, a womanizer and a drunk. He had none of Hellman's worldly ambition, and he tailored his behavior to no one. Needless to say, she was crazy about...
...time was this more evident than in the first inning. With one out, Falcon Steve Patten drew a walk off of freshman Andrew Duffell--one of only three he allowed, though two of them scored. Patten moved to third when Duffell's pickoff throw got past senior first baseman Scott Parrot, and then Steve DeMartinis drove him in with a double just past a diving Levy in left...
Duffell settled down well after that, with a single run in the third inning being the only Falcon scoring until the eighth. But the Harvard offense didn't fare much better...
...diaries' early entries, the virtues and defects of this lifelong enterprise are apparent. Ellis has always been candid about his own weaknesses--among other things, he was a troubled binge drinker. His plain Joe prose is enlivened by boundless curiosity, a wry sense of humor and a falcon-sharp eye for detail. At a hearing conducted by red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy, for example, Ellis observed: "McCarthy has the slim hips of an athlete, a thick trunk and shoulders like a buffalo. Almost lacking a neck, his huge head seems perched on his shoulders. His mouth is long and thin...
...painting make it clear that the pharaoh's first, second, seventh and 15th sons, at the very least, were buried in Tomb 5. Many of the engravings show Ramesses presenting one or another of the newly deceased young men to Re-Harakhty, the god of the sun; Horus, the falcon-headed god of the sky; or Hathor, goddess of motherhood, who is often depicted as a cow. These scenes reflect the belief that pharaohs were demigods while alive and that life was merely a short-term way station on the road to full deity...