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...Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Overseers, said Tuesday that the Overseers--which, with the Corporation, makes all fnal decisions on Faculty appointments--easily approved Southern's appointment...
...gold miners. He returned to Russia and accumulated still an other pot of money, and finally retired at 41 with an ambition that seemed to have blown into his skull like an owl through an open window. He wanted to find Troy, the fortified city to which Paris abducted Helen, and which the Achaean heroes Menelaus, Agamemnon, Ajax, Achilles and Odysseus be sieged for ten years...
...book of essays called The Message in the Bottle, splendidly analyzes the sheer strangeness of language as a phenomenon-an exchange of mental fire that obeys no physical laws but has its origins in some miraculous gift of comprehension and self-awareness, a gift as spontaneous and awesome as Helen Keller's discovering the physical fact of water and the word for water at the same moment. Such reflections reach back to the edges of silence, to a cabalistic cherishing of words-the beginning of speech being the event that marked the first step in the hominids' progress...
...quite knows how Cavafy was drawn to poetry. Certainly there was no artistic strain evident in his family. He was born and christened Constantine Photiadis Cavafy (originally Kavafis), the last of seven brothers. His mother, Haricleia, was so bent on having a girl that she referred to him as "Helen" in the womb and dressed him in frocks during his early years...
...Arnold, Nixon's first press secretary in Congress. In his memoir of the former President's early political career, Back When It All Began, Arnold tells of a Democratic Congressman who handed over a $1,000 personal check to Nixon's 1950 Senate campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas. The donor: John F. Kennedy. "He explained that the check should be used in Nixon's campaign for Senator," writes Arnold, "and that its intention was partly due to admiration of Nixon and partly due to a preference for [then] Congressman Nixon over Congresswoman Douglas ..." Arnold says that...