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Only in exceptional cases do you find a man who truly stars in more than one sport, and further, leads you to believe he would shine in anything. Jim Thorpe, of course, is Olympian in this respect, but here have been others, too. People like Bob Mathias and Glenn Davis. People like John White...
Kirkland House's inmates are like their tower, "comfortably sane." Freshmen who want to shine in College activities will probably find K-House frustrating...
Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...
...Seraphic Secretaries of America is an organization of 87 women who shine in the reflected glory of their bosses each one tops in his field.* This week the Seraphs are shining in bookstores as the expert advisers on the Complete Secretary's Handbook (Prentice-Hall; $4.75) by ex-Secretaries Lillian Doris and Besse May Miller...
...secretly, Florence kept notebooks. She chided herself in them for trying "to shine in society." She imagined herself married to Milnes, but her daydreams of marriage were of the works of philanthropy and welfare they might perform together. By candlelight, she pored over government hospital reports. "My mind is absorbed," she wrote, "with ... the sufferings of man; it besets me behind and before ... All the people I see are eaten up with care or poverty or disease...