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...told me," said Bringhurst, "that the seats were excellent--halfway up on the 50 yard line; and that he was always able to get such good seats as he was one of the football managers...
...pants and a lot of them have colored jackets with their gang names on the back. The girls, in Brooklyn anyhow, wear a sort of uniform, too-heavy makeup, long black hair (they dye it if it isn't dark), long, dangling earrings and low shoes that tie halfway up to the knee. But you'd know anyhow-they sit watching you like snakes, waiting for the first sign of weakness. It's frightening when you know that some of the boys carry switchblade knives. There's always a first test. One of them will start...
...first in a long line of Unitarian presidents. Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "Orthodox Calvinists, of the true puritan tradition now became open enemies to Harvard.... Unitarianism of the Boston stamp was not a fixed dogma but a point of view that was receptive, searching, inquiring, and yet devout; a halfway house to the rationalistic and scientific point of view...
Several other occupations-teacher, anarchist fellow-traveler, popularizer of philosophy-claimed Will Durant's attention first. But last week, sitting in his comfortable Hollywood home, just a step from his own swimming pool, successful Historian Durant scribbled away, well beyond the halfway mark, at the job he marked out for himself in 1912. The Renaissance is the fifth fat volume in Will Durant's story of civilization, and like its predecessor volumes it is a highly readable and informative popular survey...
...every man for himself in one of the less altruistic episodes in the annals of the sea. Author Gibson's gory little memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged in his leg. On the first day, the captain...