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Having written a dozen letters of protest in as many weeks, and having returned to stores spoiled chicken and dispensers that failed to dispense, we are left with small vic tories, much unnecessary mileage, enormous frustration. We'd throw in the pen. but this is the one that always leaks...
...fiance. Shaw fashioned the role as an affectionate parody of the great Classics scholar and translator Gilbert Murray. Thompson, surrounded by players with flawless British accents, comes out as thoroughly American. It is as though someone like Henry Fonda were to pop up in the middle of the Old Vic company...
...known self-portrait; it is just possible that the quick-eyed, copper-haired young cheat at the right in The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds may be La Tour himself. But his life is mostly conjecture, strung between a few documentary signposts. He was born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome. By 1617 he was back in France, marrying the daughter of a prosperous ducal silversmith, Diane Le Nerf. The marriage paid well in contacts...
Rosewall has been playing the same sort of stylish tennis since the '50s, when he and another Australian teenager, Lew Hoad, were beating U.S. Davis Cup teams manned by Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert. It has helped him win major titles over an incredible span: the U.S. championship in 1956 and again in 1970; the French championship in 1953 and 1968; the Australian championship four times, the first in 1953 and the most recent just this year...
Last year, Harvard's varsity beat the Bruins by 4.6 seconds over 2000 meters. But this season, bolstered by the return of oarsmen from last year's J.V. squad that upended the Crimson in the Stein Cup and then went on to win the Eastern sprint championship, Brown coach Vic Michaelson is optimistic about his squad's chances...