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...play Yale in almost anything from wrestling to football you invariably saw Winthrop vs Yale. In certain sports this still helds true, but the House has done much to escape the stereotype of the "home of the muscular mesomorph." The effort has been fairly successful and the Halls of Standish and Gore are now peopled with a good cross-section of the college...
...passenger list also included handsome young Cooper John Alden (Van Johnson) and baby-faced Priscilla Mullins (Dawn Addams). As for Captain Myles Standish (Noel Drayton), the picture portrays him as a happily married man who never courted Priscilla at all. With a shortage of food and water, but not of romance, the Mayflower finally makes Provincetown...
...STANDISH BACKUS...
...Eire and the ancient ways" that led to the new Ireland are suggested in a series of myths retold by Standish O'Grady. James Stephens and Lady Gregory. More contemporary myths are provided by James Joyce in a passage on Parnell lifted whole from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and by J. M. Synge in his magnificent memoir on the Aran Islands...
...earthy, red-blooded lot. The rest of the voyagers are as rowdy a band of adventurers and vagabonds as ever set sail. Aboard is a young cooper named John Alden (played by Van Johnson), who keeps the passengers' whisky and beer barrels in repair. Captain Myles Standish is below-decks most of the time; Researcher Deutsch decided that Standish was already married and probably not courting Priscilla Mullins...