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...Sixteen hundred and forty-eight years ago, the Dalmatian stonecutter Marinus arrived on the rocky slopes of Mount Titano, in central Italy, drove out the fat brown bears who inhabited the mountain, and founded the republic now known as San Marino. To lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
...December of 1948, Lorch was recommended for promotion to the position of assistant professor by a majority vote of the sixteen members of the mathematics department. This is highly unusual inasmuch as Lorch was not yet on tenure...
...next day, back in uniform and full of grace, The Lip walked modestly across the Polo Grounds to the Giants' dugout. The public-address system blared a recording of When You Were Sweet Sixteen ("I love you as I never loved before"), and his team clobbered the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 11-4. This week, on advice of counsel, Fred Boysen, the young Puerto Rican who tangled with Durocher, dropped his charge of simple assault...
...concentrators must for more intensive work select a special field from a group of 16 (sixteen). Honors candidates, who normally survive seven or eight courses in the field, take at the end of the junior year a two-part exam consisting of three questions to be chosen from four major chronological and geographical areas. True to its tradition, the department sees to it that one of the three questions must be on a pre-1700 topic. Men not attaining a satisfactory grade on this exam are dropped from the honors program...
Father Shaw's notes on the Shavian infancy are included in George Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw...