Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy, the only Eastern team up among the top ten last week, dropped from 10th to 20th as a result of Penn's upset...
...leaves of October fell a notable number of football's undefeated teams. Resurgent Army toppled high-ranking Duke, 14-13; Stanford sidetracked Rose Bowl-bound U.C.L.A., 21-20; Rice lost in the last quarter to Southern Methodist. 12-7; and Syracuse lost in the last minute to underdog Penn State, 20-14. Some major powerhouses survived. Second-ranked Michigan State scored its 28th consecutive victory, 47-18, over Indiana; third-ranked Maryland whipped undefeated North Carolina. 26-0; top-rated Notre Dame rallied to beat Pittsburgh. 23-14; and Georgia Tech stretched its unbeaten streak to 31, crushing Auburn...
BROTHER TO DRAGONS (232 pp.)-Robert Penn Warren-Random House...
What gave this true, grim story its special interest was the fact that the Lewis boys were nephews of Tom Jefferson; their mother was Lucy Jefferson of Virginia, the President's sister. For Poet-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men), this was enough to induce a stream of narrative free verse that runs to book length, with a cast that includes the shade of the murdered George, the murderers, their parents, and Tom Jefferson himself. Author Warren takes the part of commentator and uninvited amateur psychiatrist. Stripped of its turgid pretenses, Brother to Dragons asks...
name-Robert Penn Warren, a poet of proven gifts (Thirty-Six Poems, Selected Poems, 1923-1943), took more than seven years, off & on, to write this book. But for all the labor and the love he spent, it is a narrative poem which almost never achieves the emotional disturbance and enlightenment of true poetry, is too often content with such smothering lines...