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...taught a whole generation of students at Cambridge's Perse School to talk Latin and Greek as freely as they would any modern language. By the time he died in 1950, he was known as Britain's most lively and controversial translator, responsible for a new Homer boom. This week there are signs that the boom is still on: total U.S. sales of the Rouse Odyssey and Iliad, Mentor Classics announced, have topped 600,000, and a brand-new English edition of the Odyssey has just come...
...have always been fascinated by the story of Helen of Troy. It offers the first dramatic example of conflict between Asia and Europe. And the love story of Paris of Troy and the beautiful Spartan girl Helen is something I've long wanted to bring to the screen. Homer did all right with his story. I'd like...
Fireballer Virgil Trucks, 33-year-old right hander for the Detroit Tigers, hurried the season's first no-hit, no-run game in the major leagues yesterday, beating the Washington Senators, 1 to 0, Vic Wertz won the game with a homer in the ninth...
...ninth inning rally by Winthrop gave the Puritans a 5 to 4 win over Lowell in the other House baseball game. The regulation seven innings, highlighted by Ted Briggs' three-run homer for Lowell, ended in a 4 to 4 tie. The winning run came as Pete Strauss singled, advanced to third on two errors, and scored on Rick Simon's long...
...year, started things off for the visitors in the first inning by driving home Ed Krinsky, who had walked, with a double to the fence in left center. M.I.T. immediately tied the score, however, in their half of the first on lead-off man Bob White's homer off starter Rufus Webb...