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...wisecracks. He began to "heel" for the Record,' and eventually became its managing editor. He wrote rambling comments for the Record ("We like Yale better than we do Harvard. Otherwise we would have gone to Harvard and liked it better than Yale"), and under the names of Sancho Panza and Guy Fawkes, some light light verse for the News ("Ruddy-fased the peepul go, Up to Plasid for the sno . . ."). Griswold's ambition in life: to be a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Steady Hand | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...Madrid bull ring one afternoon last week, the torero was as clumsy as Sancho Panza, and the bull as listless as Rosinante. The aficionados booed, hissed, threw programs and cushions into the ring. Police tried in vain to quell the uproar. No one had seen anything like it in Spain for twelve years-since Franco came to power and banned bullring demonstrations, a beloved Spanish custom. Howled one spectator: "We want bulls for our money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Rising Temper | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...confused with France's St. Teresa of Lisieux (1873-97) or Portugal's 13th Century St. Teresa, daughter of King Sancho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Busy Mystic | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...summer palace at Burgos' Las Huelgas del Rey into a cloister administered by the white-robed Order of Cistercian nuns. The cloister, Alfonso decreed, would also be the burial site for the dead of the House of Castile; the first of the royal bodies, that of baby Prince Sancho, was entombed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...inside of his mouth, [and a] neck half a yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said two words to), Don Quixote sets out in quest of adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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