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...University of Arkansas, he impressed the board of trustees, some of whom were personal friends. When the university's longtime president died in an automobile accident in 1939, the trustees picked Fulbright, only 34, to succeed him. But two years later, when his redoubtable mother attacked Governor Homer Adkins in her column, the board, dominated by the Governor, swiftly fired Fulbright...
...sulk long. When a congressional seat became vacant the next the year, he personable decided to run- campaigning and, of his aided by wife Betty he won. Two years later, in 1944 Fulbright tried for the senate and won again. His opponent: Homer Adkins...
Contempt is decorated with posters advertising other films that Godard admires, and shots of paint-daubed statuary are inserted at intervals, presumably to suggest that a red-eyed Minerva gazes upon the 20th century with something less than Homeric tranquillity. The film's pretensions often make way for the most extravagant display of Bardot nudity yet seen. She appears nude in red light, blue light, and on a bearskin rug. "Do you like my ankles?" she purrs. "My knees? Thighs?" The question seems oddly beside the point for a director ostensibly contemplating the bust of Homer...
...fell in. A single, a walk, a nifty double steal, bad throws by Shortstop Phil Linz, Second Baseman Richardson and Outfielder Mantle, and the score was 3-0, Cardinals. Out went Stottlemyre; in came Reliever Al Downing, who threw four pitches, one of them a ball. The others: a homer, a single, a double. Out went Downing; in came Rollie Sheldon...
...protracted gossip column of the romantic period. Byron, he reveals, slept with his hair in curlers; Sir Walter Scott was as stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually...