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...first team are some of the Trib's top reporters. Walter B. Kerr, who "has been living with Byrnes, Molotov and Bevin for months," will trail diplomats. Lanky A. T. Steele, a veteran of Far East coverage, will stick to what he knows best. Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart's assignment: trouble. As a war correspondent he got schooling for covering riots, revolutions, and world violence, lately has been doing post-graduate work in Palestine and Poland. Says Joe Barnes: "We can't use men who have been stuck in one capital for 20 years as modern reporters...
Upon removal of the observatory, Andrew P. Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, became the house's occupant. In sharp contrast with the eccentric Peabody was the next Dana House resident, philosopher William James. In 1894, Professor George H. Palmer, noted for his translations of Homer moved in for a long stay that added his name to the building, followed by Richard M. Gummere, present chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...committee listened attentively, while Bilbo mangled a cigar. Then Michigan's Homer Ferguson, a relentless inquisitor, switched his approach. He asked Terry what he had done with the $15,000 given him by New York radical Simon Liberman for use against Bilbo in Mississippi's Democratic primary last July. Abruptly, Terry refused to answer and the committee cited him for contempt...
...HOMER: THE ODYSSEY-A New Translation by E. V. Rieu (31 I pp.)-Penguin Books...
William Morris' verse translation (1887) of the Odyssey came nearest to doing it poetic justice in modern English.* Well-known prose translators-Samuel Butler, S. K. Butcher, T. E. Lawrence-have put it into their own idioms, neither Homer's nor that of poetry. E. V. Rieu's is the best of the more modest prose translations intended as transparencies, making it easy for the reader to follow the Odyssey as a wondrous novel of adventure...