Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LAUNCELOT, MY BROTHER, by Dorothy James Roberts (373 pp.; Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.95). The inside story, told by Sir Launcelot's brother Bors de Garis of the triangle formed by King Arthur, Queen Guenivere and the famed Knight of the Round Table. Author Roberts has the good taste to follow Sir Thomas Malory and Alfred Lord Tennyson in keeping the characters perfectly unreal and tucking the dalliance between the lines rather than between the sheets...
...Chicago, Publisher John S. Knight...
...Miami Herald) got word that he will be the first recipient of the La Prensa Prize for American Friendship. The award, established in 1950 by Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, Buenos Aires' exiled publisher of La Prensa, will be made in Rio de Janeiro next month to honor Publisher Knight's "courageous leadership in fighting for press freedom" throughout the Americas...
However, it must be admitted that Molesworth has some qualities potentially fatal to the revolutionary: a tendency to daydream (he sees himself as an armored knight refusing mercy to a kneeling headmaster) and a touch of defeatism. On the subject of how to get out of divinity instruction, for instance. Molesworth says: "You could try being let down into the class dressed as an angel. You then sa to the master Lo who are these cherubim and seraphim who are continually crying. He repli Form 3 B. You then sa Lo they are not angles but angels with the xception...
...paper that is losing circulation is bound to be rumored up for sale. Colonel Robert R. McCormick's big, successful Chicago Tribune has lost almost 20% of its circulation since 1946 (latest figure: 877,636), and the inevitable rumors have been circulating. One had it that Publisher John Knight, whose string of papers stretches from Florida (Miami Herald) to McCormick's own Chicagoland (Daily News), was dickering to buy the Trib. Last week, in answer to a reader's question, the Trib flatly denied the rumors. Said an editorial...