Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night in question, nurses and midwives had told each of the mothers the sex of her baby, but because each had had a hard time at the birth, neither mother saw her child naked until she was ready to take it home. By then a weird Gilbert and Sullivan baby switch had apparently taken place. When Mme. Piesset, whose only daughter had died only three years before, found that the boy baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand...
Squinting down the highway, Gilbert Robert Peters, 25, at the wheel of a potato-laden tractor-trailer, saw the old flat-bed lumbering into the intersection, hit his brakes in a 147-ft. skid. The heavy tractor slammed into the rear of the workers' truck, threw the truck's people like broken jackstraws across the highway and into the ditches. Twelve of the crumpled people along route 301 were killed outright by the crushing fall; two more were burned alive in a bright ball of gasoline-fed flame. By week's end 20 of the migrants, including...
PARIS IN THE PAST, by Pierre Courthion, translated by James Emmons (149 pp.; Skira; $6.50), and PARIS IN OUR TIME, by Pierre Courthion, translated by Stuart Gilbert (142 pp.; Skira; $6.50), suggest that, if poets make the best historians, then perhaps a city's best tourist guides are her painters. The mind's eye of genius is bound to catch some ineffable quality that the traveler, with or without camera, is bound to miss. That is the premise of these two books, with their 144 handsome color reproductions of Paris from the 14th to the 20th centuries, around...
Died. George Gilbert Aime Murray, 91, spare, brilliant Greek scholar and Oxford don (from 1908), eminent translator of Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes. After the shock of losing many friends and students in World War I, Murray joined Lord David Cecil and Sir Norman Angell in urging a strong League of Nations, in 1946 became a joint president of Britain's United Nations Association. The precise scholar, who could also baffle friends with a parlor trick of taking off a sock without removing his shoe, once said that "only in peace is it possible...
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE (437 pp.)-Edited by Stuart Gilbert-Viking...