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Professor John Lighten Synge (rhymes with ring) is a bald-domed, red-mustached Irishman whose English ancestors moved to the ould sod so long ago (1600s) that Red Hugh himself ought to forgive him their origin. For 22 years, off & on, he has taught physics and mathematics in the U.S. and Canada, long enough for his speech to lose all but a touch of brogue. But in his new book, Science-Sense and Nonsense (Norton; $2.75), he shows that he has hung on to more than his share of native wit and irreverence-qualities that made his playwright uncle, John...
...tribunal, he had been given a ten-year sentence two weeks ago by a German denazification court, for his part in atrocities in Poland. Now that he had solved the mystery of Göring's suicide, the general hoped, somewhat naively, that the U.S. would intervene to lighten his sentence...
With the exception of one Workshop professor who sang the role of Gurnemanz, the singers were all graduate and undergraduate students of the university. To lighten the singing load (and share the experience), there were two Parsifals and two Kundrys. A standout performance: that of Tenor Guy Owen Baker, 27, a veteran of all three Bloomington Parsifals, who sang the title role in Acts...
...understood that the undergraduate members of the old athletic committee--who represented the athletic teams--were opposed to the Administration's plan to lighten the varsity's 1952 football slate...
Voteran of two and a half years in the Marine Corps, including duty in the Pacific, and married for over a year, Knans attended Summer School last summer to lighten h is academic load for the rest of the year, Schaefer said...