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Little Beagle. Fifteenth century records list the Cecils as "municipal worthies" in the Lincolnshire city of Stamford. They were ancient and loyal vassals of the Tudor kings, and when Henry VIII confiscated the lands of the Roman Church, the Cecils got their share...
...South Pacific, distinguished himself not only as a commander but as a castaway-he spent six days on a raft eating raw albatross and being parboiled by the tropic sun after a 6-17 crash at sea, near Espiritu Santo. He went to Italy, where he commanded the Fifteenth Air Force for 20 months, and then came back to the Pacific as commander of the Twentieth Air Force, whose 6-293 dropped the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Fine Arts department is offering a half course in the fall on "Italian Painting of the Fifteenth Century." A course on Japanese art will also be given in the fall. Fine Arts 170, formerly a half course, has been expanded to 170a and 170b, two half courses. The first half is "Art of the Nineteenth Century" and the second "Art of the Twentieth Century...
...present worth since the company is closely held and its securities haven't passed through the open market recently. One thing is sure, though--it is worth plenty more than $250,000. In other words, Harvard University's interest in Anhouser-Busch is the equivalent of at least one fifteenth and possibly more than a tenth of the price paid for the Cardinals...
...this English-made historical melodrama, the Brattle presents two French shorts. The first, called Zanzabelle, is the work of an old French puppeteer, who has a remarkable ability to place human faces on his dolls and an equally wonderful talent for amusing situation. The other short, Images Medievales, reproduces fifteenth century French manuscript illumination in striking color. The sketches are interesting, and the dubbed-in English sound track is unintentionally hilarious...