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...being an Oxford don in the Honour School of English Language & Literature, a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College and the most popular lecturer in the University. To watch him downing his pint at the Eastgate (his favorite pub), or striding, pipe in mouth, across the deer park, a stranger would not be likely to guess that C. S. Lewis is also a best-selling author and one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world...
...critics for criticizing his plays: "I will want to follow every syllable of Mr. Shaw's postmortems. ... I will be sitting at the foot of a master eager for the smallest drops of instruction. ... I shall read his every word, hoping ... to learn more about my occupation. . . . Welcome, stranger...
Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, had an isolated mountain snuggery to look forward to, if she wanted to accept it. The will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...
...stranger to the University, the club from Watertown, managed by Ernis Mannino '46, includes in its lineup Chip Gannon, Cliff Crosby, Miles Hunington, and Bill Foster, all Harvard men, who have been playing for the team this summer as well as in the informal games each day at Soldiers Field...
Change, no stranger to Claverly Hall, is again present in the old Gold Coast dormitory, which has seen 54 years of Harvard evolution. Workmen are placing twentieth-century steel beams along-side the one-time glistening mahogany walls, as they work to bolster up the sagging walls...