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...setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Improving on Oedipus | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...opening period with his first score of the afternoon. Moments later. Crimson attackman Woody Spruance pulled up with a pinched nerve behind his left knee and had to leave the game. Before the period had ended, LaMotte and two other Bulldogs rammed shots past Crimson goalls Gill Leaf and the score...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Lacrosse Squad Overwhelmed by Yale Barrage, 13-7, As Hot Weather, Poor Offense Mar Crimson's Effort | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

...Crimson penalties and Bulldog hustle led to four more Eli goals in the third period, putting the game out of Harvard's reach. Coach Munro substituted goalle Jim Weir for Leaf in an effort to stop the Yalle scoring parade, but the margin of victory grew steadily...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Lacrosse Squad Overwhelmed by Yale Barrage, 13-7, As Hot Weather, Poor Offense Mar Crimson's Effort | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

...final period LaMotte continued his brilliant performance by flipping passes to Bobby Grose and John Walker. Each stickman rifled a shot once past Leaf, who had returned to the Crimson nets late in the quarter...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Lacrosse Squad Overwhelmed by Yale Barrage, 13-7, As Hot Weather, Poor Offense Mar Crimson's Effort | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

Down to a Fig Leaf. Along with ponderation. Dontot has imbued Thomson-Houston with a dedication to long-range economic planning. Though French house wives have as yet shown scant enthusiasm for automatic washing machines, Dontot is convinced that they will come around in time, has doggedly plastered France with posters of a little man loading a Thomson-Houston washer with such enthusiasm that his sole remaining clothing consists of a straw hat and a fig leaf. Such investments in the future have paid off handsomely for Thomson-Houston. Currently, the company is swamped with or ders for short-wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Thomson Sounds Good | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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