Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. Politics mixes with sex and sadness in the third febrile novel (others: Justine, Balthazar) of a projected quartet about prewar Egypt...
...animals, three noble German brothers drag themselves home to their Hessian castle at the close of World War II. The eldest heals his wounds by charity, tending the displaced persons who occupy the castle. The second heals himself by husbandry, tending the displaced soil and its peasants. But the third brother, Amadeus, finds no panacea to hand. Years in a concentration camp have killed his trust in human beings. War and revolution have so sapped his faith in the earth itself that he can only sigh skeptically when a cheerful clergyman assures him that healing "always begins with the hands...
Cary Middlecoff finished second with a final round of 72 for a total of 285. Defending champion Arnold Palmer salvaged third place...
...left field wall, 291 feet away, in the second inning. Quantico came back with a run on another four-bagger, and the score remained tied until the seventh. Captain and catcher John Davis then poled a home run over the right field wall, and the Crimson got a third score the following inning. With Harvard ahead by two with one inning remaining, there seemed little doubt as to the outcome...
...first game with the University of Richmond on April 2, was postponed till the next day because of more rain, and on the third, Harvard and Richmond squared off in a double-header of two seven inning games...