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...cousin Gwen Raverat in a family memoir describes Darwin on his fourteenth birthday "lying with his long Etonian legs on the sofa in a negligent, grown-up attitude." While at Eton, Darwin engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers the best. He practiced for these contests by seeing if he could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized...
...organization plans to set up three booths around the University where members of the group will pass out white circles to be worn over the heart to symbolize opposition to capital punishment, Gwen L. Spivey, a first-year Law student and member of the group's steering committee, said yesterday...
...Gwen G. Hays...
Daughter Julie (Rosemary Harris) and Granddaughter Gwen (Mary Layne) have dabbled in or are toying with an actress's favorite form of early retirement - marriage. Harris, of course, is one of the most impeccable comediennes of the English-speaking stage and has the kind of exquisite timing that might make a Swiss watch blush...
CHICAGO. A corrosive dance of decadence that Bob Fosse has choreographed into an electrifying musical, helped no end by Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach...