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...Enid Starkie, Fellow of Somerville College, a brilliant Rimbaud scholar who pub-crawls about Oxford in bright red slacks and beret while smoking cigars. In 1951 she proposed that the chair actually be occupied by a poet. Her candidate: Poet C. Day Lewis. At once, her archrival, tweedy Helen Gardner, Fellow of St. Hilda's College, now famed as an oddly prim defender of Lady Chatterley's Lover, entered Novelist (The Screwtape Letters) C. S. Lewis. In the ensuing battle of Lewis v. Lewis, Starkie's man won the five-year post (which pays $840 a year...
...formidable candidate: protean Poet-Novelist Robert Graves, who lives on Majorca with his family, two poodles, a passel of cats and a donkey. He promised to lecture "about poetry" because "at universities they don't know anything about it." Kingmaker Starkie got herself nominated, and Rival Gardner quickly followed suit. Oxonian purists then went to the desperate length of putting up Cambridge University's frosty Critic F. R. Leavis, the scholarly exponent of Novelist D. H. Lawrence...
...King. Soon tongues were wagging over the sherry: "A vote for Leavis is a vote for Lawrence ... A vote for Starkie is a vote for Rimbaud ... A vote for Gardner is a vote for Chatterley ... A vote for Graves is a vote for Graves." Candidate Starkie crowed happily that Oxford "is the most spiteful place I've ever been in," and made her point by scoffing at her rivals...
...candidate Allan Gardner led the epee squad to a 5-4 win over the Beavers. In other epee matches Bill Bodnett won two of three and Jon Reckier one of one, while Pete Piazza lost both of his bouts...
Another All-Ivy candidate, senior Allan Gardner, leads the epee squad. Bill Bennett and Jon Reckler will fence second and third positions...