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...first time in five years the Crimson sextet faces the strong possibility of no invitation to the post-season NCAA playoffs to be held three weeks hence at Troy, N.Y. A more difficult question is who will get the nod, for this winter's Eastern intercollegiate hockey has been the wackiest in recent years...

Author: By John R.adler, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...crop up yearly. One undergraduate in statistics, obviously concentrating too heavily in science, wrote of a "tetrachloric correlation." And a Soc Rel section man saw a reference--probably by a boy from Michigan--to a "Deus ex mackinaw." Or perhaps he lived near the girl who wrote of ancient Troy's Scalamander River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Blooopers | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

Author Ben Hecht, newly mellowed into the meek Wallace of TV interviewing, surrendered to impulse last week. In place of chatting with his usual guest, Hecht wrote a way-gone whimsy. The Three Echoes on a Cloud-a bull session on world problems between Helen of Troy, Empress Josephine and Joe Stalin, perched on adjacent clouds in limbo. Sample thought: "We'll divide this into East Cloudia and West Cloudia." Hecht himself played Stalin in full Red uniform with all the passion of a snowman in Siberia. Next week: Hecht as Casanova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bottom of the Week | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Doherty Roadhouse tailored its service to the varying requirements of its potential customers. A kilogram (32 troy oz.) bar of Canadian gold approximately the size and shape of a 10? chocolate bar sold for $1,126 (at the Toronto price of $35.20 an ounce). For the Rolls-Royce trade, the large-size bar (400 oz.) cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Gold on Margin | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...plan, no itinerary. He visits Helen of Troy and her husband Menelaus in Sparta. Helen is still beautiful, but the King has become a fat and greedy landlord whose subjects are on the edge of revolt. Helen and Odysseus are, up to a point, two of a kind. When he suggests that they run off, she agrees, and they slip away to Crete. There the King is old and sterile; there, too, the people talk revolution and the blond barbarians from the north are muscling in. The old King marries Helen, and Odysseus, after adventures of fierce brutality, leaves Crete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homer Continued | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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