Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unanimously approved the policy report at a meeting Monday night. Author John Hersey's appointment last spring as Master of Pierson College at Yale was the focal point of the report. Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, president of the HUC, and Steve W. Simpson '66, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, discussed the appointment with Yale students, administrators, faculty members, and Hersey himself...
According to the report, they went to Yale "with the knowledge that Harvard will have several masterships open in the near future, and these positions are not easy ones to fill." (John M. Bullitt '43 will resign as Master of Quincy House, and the new tenth House will also need a Master...
Died. Harry Blackstone, 80, U.S. magician, a master illusionist who described magic as "nothing but psychology," brought new excitement to the old now-you-see-it-now-you-don't school when, performing at the White House in 1926, he pickpocketed a revolver from Calvin Coolidge's bodyguard, and became one of the giants in the field with his own line of spectacular tricks, featuring a donkey vanishing onstage and a rope climber disappearing in a cloud of smoke; of uremia; in Hollywood...
...dawn, the borrowed bride seems agreeable enough when her master, defying the laws of God and man, declares himself sole possessor of his prize. Though their tepid passion would scarcely justify a stern frown, it somehow brings on rebellion, invasion, indeed an all-hands orgy of picturesque violence. Enemy hordes besiege the tower, piling up in the moat while oil and dissension boil within. "Is this what we get for loving?" asks the fair captive...
...concludes, were written by one of Bothwell's mistresses. Others were actually written by Mary to Bothwell in the course of legitimate business, but then doctored to suggest illicit passion and intrigue. One of Mary's maids-in-waiting had been taught by the same writing master as Mary, and as a result her handwriting was almost indistinguishable from Mary's. Davison claims that at the urging of her husband, who turned against Mary, she forged and inserted incriminating passages...