Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game, announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting Frank Kovacs, who sometimes tries to outrage his opponents into bad playing, almost came to blows with Welby Van Horn, the defending champ...
...York City's Bronx Zoo, Superintendent Quentin Schubert and Executive Secretary John Tee-Van pondered the problem of how to weigh Pete, a 43-year-old hippopotamus. Scales were obviously out of the question. Suddenly they remembered Archimedes...
Hour of Mystery (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). "The Singapore Exile Murders," Van Wyck Mason's punchy mystery, starring Roger Pryor...
WRITERS AND WRITING (381 pp.] -Robert van Gelder - Scrlbner...
...special cases, including geniuses and college sophomores, enjoy the process; writers as a group have to drive themselves to it. As a group they have always been spiritual hypochondriacs, professional sufferers who manage -(frequently) to make a living out of their suffering. No one knows this better than Robert van Gelder, editor of the New York Times Book Review, who has interviewed dozens of authors during the past few years. About 90 of his interviews are now collected in Writers and Writing. Sample testimony...