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...ignore the fact. Lewis Carroll never reconciled himself to Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, which seem so right as to be almost inevitable. Tennyson, who did not care for art, was simply indifferent to the best efforts of Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt to illustrate his poems. William Thackeray, Edward Lear and W. S. Gilbert were better pleased, for they illustrated their own work...
...clumsy, and just about the only man in the house who did not know he was through as a fighter, former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles stumbled around the ring in Miami for nine rounds before he finally dropped under the awkward flailing of a third-rate pug named John Holman...
Behind Ord in the 50 is Engene Holman, who has covered the distance in 24.5 in the 100, Swanson is Cornell's second best, with 54 seconds his best clocking so far. But this is not the versatile visiting captain's best event...
Ralph Wanger was sleeping in his room in Holman Hall on M.I.T.'s East Campus when he was awakened by a man in the next room. He jumped out of bed in time to see his trousers disappearing through the door. The trousers contained Wanger's wallet and 15 dollars. Wanger tackled the burglar on the stairs before he could escape and, joined by two other students, held him until police arrived...
...selling job was handled for the Government by Holman D. Pettibone, 65, retired board chairman of the Chicago Title and Trust Co., Leslie R. Rounds, retired vice president of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, and Everett R. Cook, a Memphis cotton merchant. The board first called for bids, then negotiated with the top bidders in an attempt to get a higher price. After seven months of bargaining, the board succeeded in raising original bids "substantially." Exactly how much the Government is getting for its synthetic-rubber plants will not be known until January, when the board reports...