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Poor Risk. But in the turbulent years when the Irish rebels fought against Britain's Black and Tans, Sean Lemass grew into a rugged guerrilla fighter in the I.R.A.'s Dublin Brigade. He was jailed by the English four times, escaped once. After the 1921 treaty, by which...
Golden winds up with the tale of a peddler whose first name is still a household word. He was a Bavarian immigrant named Levi Strauss. He sailed to San Francisco in 1852 with a batch of denim canvas. Strauss hoped to sell the fabric for tenting, but noticed that the...
Paddies & Patches. With such an intricate career a parasite would seem vulnerable to several forms of attack. But the only known drug treatments for humans are rugged and not particularly reliable once the disease reaches an advanced stage. In many parts of the world, schistosomiasis is so much an accepted...
As he encounters that rare species, the Vassar girl, Alan Simpson will no doubt remain a witty, candid and ingratiating foe of highfalutin humbug in language or learning. Not that he equates the straightforward with the rough-and-ready. British-born and an Oxford graduate, he joined the University of...
Rugged and dogged are the words for Richard Ward Day, 47, selected last week to succeed William Saltonstall as headmaster of Exeter. After attending Massachusetts' Shady Hill and Belmont Hill schools, the Boston-born Day went on to Yale ('38) where he stuck out three bruising years on...