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Clearly, Scout Finch is no ordinary five-year-old girl-and not only because she amuses herself by reading the financial columns of the Mobile Register, but because her nine-year-old brother Jem allows her to tag along when he and Dill Harris try to make Boo Radley come...
General Cemal Gursel (pronounced Jem-fl/ Goor-sell) is a professional soldier whose troops affectionately call him Cemal Aga (Big Brother Cemal). Silver-haired. scrub-mustached and corpulent (5 ft. 10 in., more than 200 Ibs.), he was born of a conservative, middle-class family in Eastern Anatolia 65 years ago, was commissioned a lieutenant in the Ot toman army at 19. As a World War I artillery officer, he fought the British at the Dardanelles and in Palestine...
...replaced the enunciation "hep," which had all the current meanings. Why? Because some hepster preferred the key of i to that of e, just as English vowel changes produced "Jem...
Today's key singles contest is between Roger Tuckerman '59 and Oxford's ace, William Gunnery. In the first doubles match Jeremy Hogben and Jem Baily will oppose David Kingly and Edward Harding '58, the only veteran of the 1956 English tour. Charles Devens '32 will play Cambridge's Ian Stewart today, while Dwight and John Davis will represent Harvard in the final matches on Saturday...
Emotional I O Us. To begin with-as Author Maurois has diligently discovered -Miss Howard was not, as she said, an "orphan" from Dover named Harriet Howard. She was Elizabeth Ann Haryett, daughter of a Brighton bootmaker. Seduced at 15 by a jockey named Jem, she became an excellent horsewoman and later an actress at London's Haymarket Theater. At 18 she became the mistress of a wealthy Guards officer, who poured a fortune into her purse. At 19 she bore him a son. When she took the infant to be baptized, she named her own father and mother...