Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team plays its second game of a 12-game schedule against M.I.T. at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3. On the mound for the Crimson will be tall righthander Paul Ronka, second man on the team's pitching staff. This season, in addition to Ronka, Samborski will rely lefty Tom Boone. Boone, the best hurler on the squad, compiled a 10 to 2 record in Missoula, Mont., American Legion ball last year and gained credit for a win in a pre-season practice game. Behind these two are pitchers Roy Williams, Al Yarbro, Bill Hyland and Jon Silverman...
Mary Graydon's mother conveys all the wit and essential fatigue of this intelligently vague woman who could only manage to be Christian in one direction at a time. Her brood--the handsome Humphrey (Joel Crothers) and the over-eager Nicholas (Paul Ronder)--are more than adequately rakish and frenetically inept, respectively; and to say this family gathering seems unusual would be extreme understatement...
...Stassen, 49, director of the petroleum division of the Minnesota state tax department, who left his job as a milkman to take a position in the state government when his 31-year-old brother Harold Stassen, sometime Pullman conductor, became Governor in 1939; of a heart attack; in St. Paul...
...NATURAL SCIENCE OF STUPIDITY (288 pp.)-Paul Tabori- Chilton...
...With stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain," sighed Friedrich Schiller, and Oscar Wilde added his amen: "There is no sin except stupidity." Both writers had cause for complaint: stupidity, their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...