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Traditionally, the Victorians weren't a breed of doubters. They tended to be set in their ways, of moderate ambition, of staid habit. It's not often that we can see what happened to them when they practised excess, and we must be thankful to James Merrill's The Immortal Husband for the instruction. We must also thank him for a highly original and vastly entertaining play...
...closely with the use of cancer-causing substances in industry and their appearance in engine-exhaust fumes. Conceding that much of his evidence was circumstantial, Dr. Hueper concluded that "the great majority of lung cancer" is not caused by excessive cigarette smoking. He attributed to cigarette smoking (an "unhealthy habit") "a definite, while lesser, direct or indirect role in the production and rise in frequency of cancers of the lung...
Aladar, the man in the story, comes as reluctantly to love as the girl. Nearing 40, insulated in the creature comforts of habit, he has reached that safe harbor where the winds of memory can no longer wound. He can think without wincing of his failure as a painter, of his wife's deserting him for another man. Now Aladar is a successful businessman who does not seek adventures. On meeting Lalla, he methodically notes that she is a peroxide blonde, pretty, somewhat common, a compulsive liar, but all the same, rather appealing...
...youth in Springfield, he sold subr scriptions for the weekly Sangamo Journal, covered the state legislature for the same paper when he was a state representative. He carried his habit of writing letters-to-the-editor right into the White, House. For about a year before his inauguration he secretly owned a newspaper, the German-language Illinois Staats-Anzeiger at Springfield. The contract Lincoln drew up to buy the paper left it in the hands of Editor Theodore Canisius but entitled Lincoln to take over its type and press any time the paper failed to espouse the Republican line...
Thus Sportswriter Lenny Anderson described the grim days when losing coaches quail before alumni complaints and. in their wishful dreams, head south for a job at Georgia Tech, the school that has yet to fire a coach. But if the Yellow Jackets have a happy habit of hanging on to their coaches, the coaches have a happy habit of fielding winning teams. Last week, just to keep the record straight, Coach Robert Lee Dodd's unbeaten engineers eased past Duke's Blue Devils...