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...Teachers College. Short and barrel-chested, he uses crutches as a result of childhood polio, has been chief engineer on the campus radio station and announcer of home football games. David Fisher, 21, short, unkempt, slightly aloof, is the group's musical arranger and the only Highwayman who is seriously interested in music. Son of a public school principal in New Haven, he wants to take a Ph.D. in musicology...
...Marion Whitton, 62, Federal Highway Administrator. Highwayman Whitton is among the oldest of the Kennedy appointees, but may well be one of the spryest. A graduate civil engineer, he started out surveying for the Missouri State Highway Department in 1920, rose to become its chief engineer and prime builder of 12,000 miles of state roads. Democrat Whitton has won nearly every top professional award his trade has to offer, was strongly recommended for his new job by outgoing Republican Administrator Bertram Tallamy...
...disgusted slot-machine mechanic, "you could surround the thing with sheet metal, and they will find a way to beat it." Yet for all the troubles with the professional jackpotters, there are always enough honest, ordinary suckers around to make the one-armed bandit history's healthiest highwayman...
Died. Alfred Noyes, 77, right-bank English poet (The Highwayman), critic (Voltaire), philosopher ("God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies"), novelist (The Devil Takes a Holiday), onetime (1914-23) professor of English literature at Princeton; on the Isle of Wight. The early commercial success of his verse was a sensitive point with Noyes, who abhorred the hack reputation, denied that he "had made poetry pay." Born a generation after his time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought...
...time John Gay wrote it in 1728, London opera had been the Italianate tableaux of Handel, complicated tales of gods and goddesses, ancient heros, and noble peasants. Gay took contemporary London as his scene, its squalid poor for his supporting players, and a well-born rake turned highwayman as his hero. Whereas Handel had been intrigued by the idea that savages could be as noble as lords and ladies, Gay argued that nobles could be as savage as the lowliest pimp; his characters, though they try desperate hard, are despondent over their failure to exceed "the quality folk" in treachery...