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Perhaps Professor Beach developed the taste for these shirts during his pioneer years at college, in the lumberlands of Minnesota. When he graduated in 1900, he carried his luggage and Phi Beta Kappa Key to Cambridge, where he got his M.A. and Ph.D. under George Lyman Kittredge. After Harvard, he returned to Minnesota and became an assistant professor of English literature. By 1924, he was a full professor...
Eliot's B League team handed a similar defeat to Adams, 25 to 24, although Adams led by a point at the half. Harry Guild and Lyman Hall had the height that gave the Elephants control of the backboards through most of the low scoring game...
...about details which leave the reader ashy-hued." But fortunately, her Love Story is sufficiently veneered with shyness to keep the apples in the reader's high cheekbones: though it is always a bit vulgar, it is never coarse. It takes the reader through a tragicomic record of Lyman ups & downs, including the death of Sister Eileen in an automobile accident, and draws to a close just before the Lymans and their three children take off for Europe...
...present Lyman home is London...
...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...