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...Lancelot Splay...
Many a U.S. schoolboy has wandered in the bright worlds into which Artist N.C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth made many a window. With the Deerslayer, Sir Lancelot and Long John Silver, they have hunted, dueled, and sailed the painted spaces where no real harm ever comes to heroes. Wyeth had a high talent for getting the maximum of action into his adventure illustrations with the minimum of gross bloodshed which might offend parents more than boys...
Princess Margaret Rose, 15, under the weather for days though up & around in public, had her royal appendix removed in her Buckingham Palace bedroom. Participating: Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward (her father's surgeon), four doctors, six special nurses. All went well...
Died. William W. Norton, 54, publisher (W. W. Norton & Co.) of popular books on tough, unpopular subjects (e.g., Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million'), chairman of the Council on Books in Wartime, which sponsored the widely read Armed Services Editions; of a rare blood disease; in Manhattan...
...lovers are as fresh and eager after their long journey as when they were merely a pair of simple Picts. Unlike many medieval heroes and heroines (e.g., Lancelot and Guinevere), Tristan and Iseult are nearer to human than heroic size. Iseult the Fair has a whole bag of tricks up her flowing sleeves. Tristan is probably the most versatile hero of legendary history: he is not only death to dragons, but a first-rate harpist and singer and an ace huntsman and seaman. He is, notes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the Admirable Crichton of medieval romance [and] it must be regretfully...