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After making a bad bet on the horses in the London of 1820, a reckless dandy named Scrope Berdmore Davies crammed his personal papers into a trunk, stashed it in a bank vault and skipped the country. Doing a spot of housecleaning at the Pall Mall branch of Barclays Bank the other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont...
...guide through this gallery of horrors, Newman tries to keep everybody's spirits up with wisecracks. His chapter headings give the flavor: "A One-Way Streetcar Named Detente," "Ize Front," "Paradigm Lost." But the charm of persistent jokiness begins to pall long before the tour is over...
...cited other reasons for the team's weak offensive showing. "We stopped making the plays and started reacting to what Brown was doing," she said yesterday. "When we took shots across the goal mouth, there was no one there to knock the ball in. Earlier this year, everyone went pall-mall for the ball. Today we were cautious...
...would be tragic if the investigations stretch out inconclusively until Nov. 2 and cast a pall of suspicion over the election. Yet there have been so many surprises in Campaign '76 that next week could bring some new blunder or fresh disclosure, tossing the contest once again topsy-turvy. No doubt Candidate Ford has been badly set back, but, given the nature of this election, the winner could turn out to be the man who makes the second-to-last goof...
...says could result in an operating loss of $2.3 million per year. Local residents still hope that a compromise can be reached; shutting down the plant would throw 3,200 employees out of work in an area where there are few other jobs. That prospect has already cast a pall over Silver Bay (pop. 3,500); nearly every family in town has at least one member working at the Reserve plant. In fact, many of the town's residents, believing that their community is doomed, fear they will have to apply for welfare. Says Robert Kind, 45, a Silver...