Word: simon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This modest B.R.T. program makes Notre Dame practically a simon-pure in 1946's dark brown scheme. That scheme is a mosaic of little schemes. North Carolina and Duke, just twelve miles apart, were out to hijack each other's squads as though they were fighting Yankees. Kansas and Missouri, archrivals, have been on the verge of war over a prize halfback named Forrest Griffith. Coach Jim Lookabaugh of Oklahoma A. & M. has accused Oklahoma U. of spending $200,000 to buy a football team. Said he: "Some players who will oppose us this fall will be drawing...
...Simon P. O'Leary, chairman of the sponsoring AVC group's voters committee, and Albert S. Bigelow, state AVC chairman, affirmed that Harvard students were invited to the gathering...
...Simon Elwes did not realize it but a seed had been planted in him. At the time, however, he all but forgot the experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half...
...hoary beauty. The Office of Works, which must approve the plan, puts the chances of approval at 50-50. But scores of Anglican clergymen have warmly endorsed the project. So has one R. R. Verity, who identifies himself as a descendant of the first Abbot of Fountains Abbey. Says Simon Elwes: "It is in God's hands...
...Edited by Louis Kronenberger -Knopf ($5). Subtitled "An Anthology of Civilized Writing" this is a connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...