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Although the Crimson will be heavily favored to repeat or better last year's 7-2 victory, there should be a good number of close individual contests, especially if William's number one player, Ollie Stafford, is at top playing form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squash Team to Oppose Williams, Cornell | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

Former Harvard President James B. Conant will give the Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton. University in late Feburary, it was learned yesterday. The lectures are given annually by men of international prominence, and are devoted to a discussion of world affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Will Deliver Princeton Lectures | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Critic. In Los Angeles, police looked for the thief who walked up to a movie house, poked a pistol at Theater Cashier Kay Lee Stafford, said: "I didn't like the movie. Give me everybody's money back," and walked off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

STORIES (309 pp.)-Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, William Maxwell-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from the Defeated | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Five of the stories are by Jean Stafford, the biggest name and most accomplished craftsman of the group. Mostly, she is writing communiqués in the unceasing wars between children and adults and between the innocent and the worldly. Her work is marred by a truly feminine absorption in detail so that sometimes she seems to be writing for visitors from Mars, as in Bad Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from the Defeated | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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