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...Died. Lucian C. Sprague, 74, "the doctor of sick railroads," a onetime Burlington call boy for train crews (at age 13), who in 1935 was named president and receiver of the languishing Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, eight years later saw his improvements end its bankruptcy, but was ousted in 1954 by an insurgent stockholders' group for his "gravy-train" extravagances, including a personal expense account of $226 per day; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
...largely past its BEM (bug-eyed monster) and little-green-menace stage, science fiction can look fondly at its own beginnings, and Amis writes knowledgeably of Lucian of Samosata. The Greek writer's True History is an early account of a space voyage (the ship is whirled to the moon by a waterspout), but though fictional it is hardly scientific, even considering the state of science in the 2nd century A.D. Claims of other ancestors are unsurprising: Swift, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Until about 1940, BEMs kept a many-tentacled grip on the medium, but then came...
Leading a field of seven schools until the final mark of the last race, the Varsity sailing team fouled and had to settle for a second place tie in the Boston University Invitational Regatta at M.I.T. yesterday. The host school retained possession of the Lucian Sharpe Memorial Trophy...
Boston University is favored to retain the Lucian Sharpe Memorial Trophy, with M.I.T. and the Coast Guard Academy expected to provide the toughest opposition. Other schools competing in the regatta are Dartmouth, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale...
Nailed on his 16th driving rap after he pranged a bystander's auto, quirkish Artist Lucian Michael Freud, grandson of Sigmund, was fined $14 by a London court. Said the magistrate, frisking the long record of Freudian slips: "You are temperamentally unfitted to drive a car. I think you'd better see a psychiatrist...