Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the ages, men have sought out drugs to dull their physical aches and pains or to alleviate, like the nepenthe Homer describes, their mental ones. More treasured still have been the substances used to bring mortal flesh into the presence of the divine. Such was the mysterious soma, mentioned in a Sanskrit chronicle. Nomads on the Kamchatka Peninsula lofted themselves into the dazzling world of the gods with the mushroom Amanita muscaria, and discovered that the visions of one eater could be passed to as many as five others if each one drank the urine of the man before...
...hidden their art loot, proudly boasted that he was the first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went to London to watch the bidding for St. George and the Dragon, was only momentarily crestfallen when it went to the National Gallery; his real game in Europe was a much bigger, and still unconsummated purchase...
Hootstein led off the six inning with his blast, and Grate's homer, over a confused left fielder, came at the beginning of the eighth...
Springfield tied it up against reliever George Lalich in the ninth on a three-run homer to deep left...
...both games, Harvard will be seeing two of the tallest first basemen in the East. Columbia's Bob Bosson and Army's Mike Silliman are each 6-6. Bosson is riding a hot streak: against Penn and Princeton he went 4 for 8, hit a three-run homer, and drove in 6 runs...