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...world of Leptis Magna lies 76 desert miles east of Tripoli on Libya's Barbary Coast, reachable only by primitive bus or costly taxi. There are no guards in sight, and visitors often go home with a bit of the Classical Age in their pockets-usually a marble shard. It is possible for a traveler to ramble through this forest of fluted stone and broken stone bodies for hours without meeting anything at all of the present except himself, the burning...
...stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...
...busy as Physics labs at this time. Fencing from 2 to 6, boxing from 3 to 6, special exercise from 2 to 5, and wrestling from 3 to 6 provide a steady stream from the locker rooms. And in addition to the earlier swimming classes, the pool and conditioning shard three courts, depending on how many students have run out of cuts. The Varsity has two courts to itself from 3 to 4:30; Norman Fradd's tutees take over at 4:30 and 5:30; and House quintets and voluntary hoopsters play where they can from...
Salerno emphasized that national unity could not be attained unless the profits of defense were shard by industry and labor alike, and stated that a recurrence of the astounding growth in the number of millionaires during the first world war could not be tolerated a second time...
Elliot Cabot and Miriam Hopkins play the lovers. But their ardors are scarcely as exciting as the tart philosophizing of old Mrs. Pesta, a female shard, played by Helen Westley of the Guild Board of Directors. Director Westley has acted in 37 of the Guild's 70 productions. As the mother of Susi she makes the first act so brilliant that the last two are inevitably the worse for her longer absence from the stage...