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What went wrong last month when the Gemini capsule Molly Brown splashed into the Atlantic 60 miles short of its scheduled landing spot? Last week NASA's Dr. Homer Dotts firmly dispelled all rumors of a possible goof by Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young. According to Dr. Dotts, the capsule did not develop as much lift during re-entry as had been predicted from preflight wind-tunnel tests. With less gliding ability, the capsule plunged earthward on a steep trajectory that aimed her short of the target. By the time Grissom had calculated the trajectory on his computer...
...sixth, Columbia brought on star righthander Nell Farber, who had already gone nine innings that morning to beat Brown 7-1. Jim McCandlish relieved Mitchell in the sixth for Harvard, and he and Farber each pitched shutout ball until O'Donnell's homer broke the deadlock in the twelfth...
Fitzgerald is best known for his fast-paced, soaring 1961 translation of Homer's Odyssey. He has written three books of his own wide-ranging poetry, but in recent years, living in Italy, he has devoted himself largely to critical writing and visiting lectures at U.S. colleges. A graduate of Choate and Harvard and a student at Cambridge's Trinity College, he worked for the New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME from 1936 to 1949, mainly as a book reviewer. He went to Harvard's English department to lecture on comparative literature only last fall, considers...
...connection with the Quincy Holmes Arts Festival, Robert S. '33, newly-appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will from his translations of Homer and speak on the art of translation at tonight in the Quincy House Common Room...
...recently finished editing a collection of poems by James Agee, and next fall plans to begin a verse translation of Homer's "Iliad." At the same time, he will start another volume of poetry...