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...squash vs. Milton, Hemenway...
Wilson has also published two biographies, on Milton and Sir Walter Scott, and until recently was literary editor of the conservative weekly Spectator. A seventh novel about a sex scandal in Parliament has just appeared to enthusiastic reviews in London. Clearly the man can write like the wind. His admiration of Scott shows not only in his respect for a suspenseful plot but in his industry. A more direct debt is to Iris Murdoch. He dedicated his first novel, The Sweets of Pimlico, about the slow corruption of a young woman who put her faith in facts, to Murdoch...
Instances of particular interest: Tuesday, November 22: Milton Edlow, Jr., a 21-year old resident of Boston, was arrested by Cambridge Police and charged with cruelty to animals Police said Edlow is accused of kicking a kitten 12 inches into the air watching it fall, then laughing with friends about the event...
...buyer is not found soon, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, it was the Press-Scimitar's swinish attitude toward reporters from outside. The Press-Scimitar would shove a camera in the face of a dying leukemia victim, yet when it came time for itself to perish, Editor Milton R. Britten wrote in a memo, "I don't want anybody with pompadours and gleaming teeth in our newsroom with Minicams on the last day. Nor do I want any local or nonlocal journalists on our floor." He went on to say that he did not "want to submit...
...playing for the team next season); to three months in prison for attempted cocaine possession; in Kansas City, Kans. Wilson and Aikens were also fined $5,000 apiece; Martin was fined $2,500. In sentencing Wilson, who won the 1982 American League batting title, U.S. Magistrate J. Milton Sullivant noted the professional athlete's "special place in our society." Wilson was enraged. Said he: "They made an example...