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...case of Angus Wilson's latest novel, the need is dire indeed. Its characters and their predicaments are sharply observed, but there seems no very good reason for observing them. Wilson's heroine is a lower-middle-class Englishwoman named Sylvia Calvert who at 65 retires as a manageress of a seaside hotel and goes with her reprobate husband to live with their widowed son. The son is a braying ass who busies himself with the affairs of his community, one of Britain's scientifically planned New Towns. He has a snobbish daughter and two sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anglo-Saxon Platitudes | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...most distinguished returning letterman is jack Ferreria, last year's All New England goalie. Protecting him and Vic Conte, along with two sopho-will be veteran defensemen Tom Ross mores, Pete McLachlan and Brian Gilmore. The line of senior co-captains Bob Sylvia and Bob Martell and Junior Dennis O'Connell, has already scored eleven goals in four games...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Best Team in the East Opposes Sextet Tonight | 12/9/1964 | See Source »

...varsity sexpot in The Carpetbaggers, swinging seminude on a tinkling chandelier (TIME, July 3). She is completing a picture called Sylvia, in which she plays a call girl who was raped by her father when she was 13. And most notably, she will begin work next month on Joe Levine's production of Harlow, inspired by Irving Shulman's keyholing biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Housewife in Houriland | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...Sylvia Porter, business columnist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 19, 1964 | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Other officers include Jane Mansfield '66, of Whitman Hall and Akron, Ohio, secretary-treasurer; and Sylvia Cox '67, of Briggs Hall and Columbus, Ohio, hostess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAA Elects Officers, Billings Will Preside | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

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