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...privilege of attending classes with the more intelligent sex, do not for one moment assume, with an obnoxious panting so pathetically eager, that you shall be allowed to intrude where, to Harvard's daughters and daughters only, the esoteric reality of the Sisterhood is being formulated and revealed. S.W.R. Trumpington...
...University also awarded degrees to George F. Kennan, the historian of Soviet foreign policy and Ambassador to Yugoslavia: Sir Maurice Bowra, the great classical scholar and critic (Doctor of Letters) and to the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Alexander Todd, Baron Trumpington (Doctor of Science...
...achievement that earned Lord Trumpington the Nobel Prize in 1957 was his work on organic phosphates, and in particular his synthesis...
Early in World War II a character called Alistair Digby-Vane-Trumpington (in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags) asked his wife if she would mind if he joined the Commandos: "They have special knives and Tommy guns and knuckle-dusters; they wear rope-soled shoes...
Like Digby-Vane-Trumpington, many writers cannot be kept from rope ladders; they love to swarm up the icy cliffs of fiction, creep up on reality in their rope-soled shoes and knock it out of commission with those knuckle-dusters. In the van of these shock troops is British Novelist Alistair MacLean, who in H.M.S. Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956) showed his ability to zero in with a battery of heavy cliches, fieldstrip and assemble a character in the dark, and tell an exciting story. MacLean displays the same talents in his current operation, dealing with the eastern Mediterranean...