Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The humor and passion of a middle-aged virgin, transmuted into the joy of teaching children. A major literary creation...
Some Chinese claims bring only sniggers in the West. Rowing times, for example, are meaningless because wind and water conditions vary so widely from course to course. But Britain's Runner Sylvia Cheeseman, one of the few Western athletes to have seen the Red Chinese in training, came back from a trip behind the Bamboo Curtain convinced that Mao's big-brotherly encouragement to sport is no joke. "The coaches have to stop the athletes from killing themselves with overwork," she says. "The Chinese will be among the top three or four nations in sport in the next...
Last week a tipster ("He called himself 'ABC' ") led Trimble to the story that New York's freshman Democratic Representative Ludwig Teller had an aide named Mrs. Sylvia B. McNamee (Government salary: $13,334) who ran a private insurance business out of his district office in New York City...
SPINSTER (242 pp.)-Sylvia Ashton-Warner-Simon & Schuster...
When she is at home, Sylvia works out nearly three hours a day after school, spends six hours daily in the pool on weekends. A natural lefthander, Sylvia has good balance while swimming, favors neither side, breathes from either. Her flat recovery stroke and low position in the water suits her for the longer distances that are her specialty. Sylvia polishes off four full meals a day-breakfast, lunch (meat sandwich), after-school snack (steak sandwich) and dinner (a small steak). She has little interest in boys, does not indulge in teen-age phone chatter, explains, "I do not have...