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With this bold declaration, mailed to various periodicals (including TIME), Victor Taylor, 28, announced his impending graduation, magna cum laude, from Southern Illinois University. He did indeed have a story to tell. A high school dropout from Dallas, he joined the Navy, tried to become a pilot but was disqualified for color blindness. That made him so "disenchanted with Navy life," as he put it, that he robbed a naval-station bank of $125,000 and ended with a ten-year prison term...
Steiner graduated magna cum laude, and following a year at the University of London, entered Harvard Law School. After law school, he held a one-year fellowship at the New York City Bar Association and then joined the New York firm of Patterson, Belknap...
Magister atque sui quattuor discipuli narraverunt fabulam de Daimone, filio regis Herakleiae, qui peregrinatus est per mare Aegeum. Contra piratas ac serpentes maritimos pugnavit, et implicatus est cum deis, et centauris, et equis alatis. Case dixit: "Postremo erat magna disputatio de questione num Daimon deberet moriri in tempestate modo herois. Discipuli arguerunt Dai-monem dignum esse ut viveret...
...once was in the way her eyes dilate when she wants to emphasize a point. That observation would irritate her. Days at the fashionable Foxcroft School now seem "too dreadful to talk about." Radcliffe was better-"one learned to think in long phrases." She graduated in 1962 with a magna in history, writing a thesis on King Faisal's government in Syria...
Plautus novam fabulam dat." Wise woman. The old dramatic farceur manufactured situations that have kept audiences laughing for 23 centu ries. This is not news on New York's Via Magna Alba. Ten years ago, Burt Shevelove's and Larry Gelbart's free adaptation of Plautus' plays convulsed playgoers for 964 performances. At that time Zero Mostel pranced onstage like an elephant with a hotfoot in the star ring role of Pseudolus, a slave with a passion for freedom as avid as that of all 1 3 original colonies. He was gloriously funny, and in this...