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...that didn't work, to throw in a few good lines here and there. Somebody, nobody knows quite who, once called him in to patch up a dreadful little play about an exiled Greek prince, and the result is now known as The Tragedy of Pericles, Prince of Tyre...
...Pericles has a weak plot, involving a Prince of Tyre, who finds himself pursued, for various obscure yet slimy reasons, by agents of the King of Antioch. In the course of the play, he gets through seven cities, and at least as many shipwrecks, winning and losing and finding and losing and finally being re-united with his wife, his kingdom, and his daughter, not necessarily in that order. Much of the play is completely dispensable, but the section which starts when Pericles' daughter is sold into prostitution is masterful, obviously Shakespeare...
Brown disputed the outcome, complaining that the 2.2-second difference between its time and Harvard's was the result of a wake, left by a race-marshall's launch, that slowed them down. The Chairman of the Begatta Rowing Committee. Dr. Howard D. Mac??tyre, Jr., said he doubted that Brown's complaint would make a difference in the results...
Militant students, including some Christians, demonstrated in favor of a military draft. "Our sons are leading the way," declared a Beirut hotel manager last week. "We must get tough." In Tyre, merchants closed their shops in a one-day protest, and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Beirut sent a petition to Parliament demanding "full cooperation with the people of Palestine...
Ironic Fate. Most of the protest leaders stayed in the background. Mobilization Chairman David Tyre Dellinger, 53, the shy editor-publisher of Liberation, who led last fall's Pentagon March, studiously avoided the main confrontation before the Hilton. His chief aide, Tom Hayden, 28, a New Left author who visited Hanoi three years ago, was so closely tailed by plainclothesmen that he finally donned a yippie-style wig to escape their attentions. Nonetheless, he was arrested. Rennie Davis, 28, the clean-cut son of a Truman Administration economic adviser, took a more active part as one of the Chicago...