Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. A compassionate biography of the tormented English author who re-created the legend of King Arthur in a new form part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic...
...WHITE by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 352 pages. Viking...
...Arthurian cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's tone is worth examining. In her compassionate biography of White, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner suggests that it was White himself who missed his love, who lay at night listening to the roar of his veins, and who swallowed great draughts of learning as a painkiller...
Glamorously, it was the last year in the coaching career of the late Harvey M. Love, a quietly confident man who died the following winter. "You win for a good coach just as much as you win for yourself," Captain Townsend S. Swayze '59 recalled yesterday, "and we were happy to make Harvey's last year so successful...
Since he took over seven years ago, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend, an accountant rather than an operating man, has introduced just about the tightest cost controls in the auto industry-even while approving major new spending for additional facilities. In the past three years alone, Chrysler has appropriated $798 million for new plant and equipment. Space has been increased by 14 million sq. ft., or 30%, and Chrysler is making more and more of its own parts, instead of depending on outside suppliers...