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...standing around telling stories - solemnly at first - about their days and journeys with Hubert, beginning to chuckle and then to laugh out loud, and then reaching for an other bourbon to ease the long, low ache that comes from knowing a great man is gone. Had Hubert, like Tom Sawyer, been able to sneak under the back pews at his own services and witness the proceedings (and, who knows, he might have - he sort of believed in those things), he would have swelled in the wonderment of tribute. But then he would have tip toed around and bussed Muriel, winked...
...Daily, "large numbers of Chinese and foreign books have again seen the sunlight of day." Among newly freed works once labeled "bourgeois and therefore counterrevolutionary" are Martin Eden by Jack London, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain...
President Horner met with six Observatory Hill residents Monday to discuss redesigning the gym and other buildings, Topliffe Sawyer, president of Neighborhood Nine community action group said yesterday...
...Sawyer added that the meeting was profitable and he hopes that Harvard officials will be present at future meetings. He cited the need for open communication with the University, rather than Harvard always taking an adversary position...
Sometimes ABC stars even do more than that. As Happy Days grows older the relationship between the bad boy hero Fonz and the good boy hero Richie (Ron Howard) is becoming TV's own pop version of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. John Ritter of Three's Company has managed to make a popular sex symbol out of a refreshingly non-macho male. Soap, after a slow start, has begun to change its intially idiotic female leads (Cathryn Damon and Katherine Helmond) into believable middle-aged heroins. Though there is much to lament about ABC's blockbusters...