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...Women's Wear Baily was barred from the reception merely for revealing the wedding-dress design, TIME'S people must have been maxima non grata after printing that 1956 snapshot. Even we Lyndonphobes thought it ungentlemanly to remind the swan there was a duckling...
Peter: P.M.! What is that? Pestis maxima...
Renato Poggioli, assistant professor of Italian and Romance Languages at Brown University, has been appointed visiting lecturer in Italian from September 1. He holds the degree "Dottoria in Lettere in Filologia Moderna, maxima cum laude," from the University of Florence...
Translator Knox, son of a low church Anglican bishop, wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. At Eton he edited the school humorous magazine, The Outsider. At Oxford he was famed for his wit and for the huge, odorous tobacco pouch which won the nickname Cloaca Maxima (principal sewer of ancient Rome). After a few years as Anglican chaplain at Oxford's Trinity College, Knox was converted to Roman Catholicism, ordained to the priesthood. He returned to Oxford as Catholic chaplain, where he has continued to turn out books, witty poems, and anchovy toast for Sunday tea. Discussing...
Quantitatively this is no more than shipyards, now approaching their maxima of slightly better than five ships a day, will deliver in 1943. But qualitatively Land's program-if it pans out-will represent a big improvement over this year's record. Half of the 2,000-odd ships planned for 1944 are to be faster (15 knots), costlier (over $40 a ton), larger and more efficient than the present Liberty. Ship for ship, the new Libertys should deliver up to 50% more cargo a year than their forerunners...