Word: keens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Bobo Olson was a 15-year-old in Hawaii he was so keen to be a professional fighter that he had his arms tattooed and shaved his chest every day to make the hair grow faster-all so he would look old enough to get a fighter's license. Last week Middleweight Champion Olson, a balding 25-year-old, was candidly bored by the whole business: "I'm tired of fighting. I don't like it anymore. I'm doing it for the money alone-until I get enough to go into some kind...
...life. But some of those players had apparently come from the household of one Sir Thomas Hesketh of Rufford, who was not only related to Thomas Savage, one of Shakespeare's Globe Theater partners, but also to Sir Alexander Houghton, Shakeshafte's patron. In his will, Keen found, Houghton had recommended his players to Hesketh, and from there, the link to the Earl of Derby was clear...
...Obstinate Papist." Keen, however, soon discovered other leads. One was that Shakespeare's father got into trouble in Stratford, presumably for remaining a Roman Catholic. At that time, says Keen, he might well have wanted to send his son away from Stratford, and it was quite possible that he let him flee with his Catholic schoolmaster Simon Hunt, who apparently found his way to an English Catholic college in Rheims, France. In any case, Shakespeare was later to refer to that college in The Taming of the Shrew ("I . . . freely give unto you this young scholar that hath been...
Concludes Keen: "William Shakespeare has given us many a picture of many a life, but unhappily not a word about his own-a most vexatious man . . . Yet it is not difficult to see a pattern from which one might plot a new biography...
Part of this is due to the outmoded law under which the ICC operates. One of its original purposes was to protect the public against monopolistic railroad practices. But cars, trucks and planes have brought keen competition to the transport industry, and so have drastically reduced the monopoly dangers and the reason for ICC. Instead of withering away, the ICC is now devoting much of its time to protecting the railroads from themselves. For example, 25% of the time at rate hearings is spent on the effect that an increase will have on the public, 75% on whether it will...