Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter the Turks. Greek influence in Cyprus dates back to the Trojan War, more than 1,000 years before Christ. Homer sang of friendship between Agamemnon and Kinyras, a king of Cyprus, and Greek colonists brought their culture to the island in later centuries. Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Romans and Franks came after, but the Greek influence endured, flourishing during the Byzantine Empire. Then came the Turks...
...pinnacle of poshery by his son, Baron Duveen of Millbank, who became so legendary a dealer that 24 years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste in building superb, now mostly public collections...
...single by lead-off man Bill Mulcahy, followed by a walk to porky Frank DeFelice surprised the small gathering. A line-drive homer to deep left center by Fred Prifty, scoring three runs, shocked everyone, including the Eagles...
...first homer should never have happened. Just before he hit it, he had sent a ball up the elevator shaft on the first base side of the plate. Catcher Gary Miller waved his first baseman away and lost...
...little help from fielders who committed eight errors or from a catcher who had three passed balls and allowed Harvard eight stolen bases. In addition to Miller's grand-slam, captain Tom Stephenson had a late-inning round-tripper and little second baseman Skip Falcone smashed a wrong-field homer in the third...