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...Lion & Eagle." Yet the Irish literary renaissance is unthinkable without Yeats. It was he who found John Millington Synge dawdling in the cafes of Paris and packed him off to the Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above...
...poet, Yeats was like an element in nature. In old age, he loved to tell the tale of an ancient sage (possibly William Butler Yeats) who was asked, "Who are your Masters?" And he replied, "The wind and the harlot, the virgin and the child, the lion and the eagle...
Died. Melvin Jones. 82, hearty, back-slapping founder of Lions International and its longtime secretary-general, who helped make the Lions the world's largest service-club association with 625,539 members in 112 nations united under the motto "We Serve" and the theme song Roar, Lion, Roar; after a series of strokes; in Flossmoor...
...protect its lion's slice of the British gasoline market from hard-driving competitors, Shell-Mex & B. P. Ltd., jointly owned marketing arm of the Shell group and British Petroleum, turned to an articulate advocate of the hard sell. In as the company's managing director went John Emerson Harding Davies, 45, youngest man ever to hold the post. A World War II major who credits the British Army with "giving me an opportunity to develop initiative," ex-Accountant Davies likes to spend his time with salesmen in the field, argues that many decisions that used to consume...
...children. Wild animals have been Prey's most difficult subjects ("The only possible way to get an alligator to cut loose is by tooting a B-flat French horn; they think the damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx Zoo. There one spring day he roared at a hungry and puzzled lion until the beast let out a howl "like something out of Frank Buck...