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Even though he has lost to a great extent his undergraduate awe of Harvard, Bate still feels a healthy respect for the University, and cannot quite reconcile himself to his position. For some years, he admits, he felt like Huckleberry Finn at the mansion of the Widow Douglas, afraid that anything he touched or tried would bring a reprimand from authority...
...shoebox houses pock-marked with bullet holes. He poked his pistol at the heavy-meshed windows, to make sure that they were strong enough to keep out hand grenades. A rifle barked in the distance. We turned about at the end of the village near an abandoned house. A widow had lived there until one morning last June, when three men poked dynamite underneath the floor and blew her to pieces. U.N. officers tracked the killers to the Jordan border...
...upon which Thomas plays his song of humanity. And Captain Cat, though one of the three narrators and Thomas' central figure, is seldom more than a vacuum tube to broadcast the author's lyric commentary to his listeners. With characters like Mr. and Mrs. Cherry Owen or the fussy Widow Ogmore-Pritchard ("Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes"), Thomas allows more individuality and they reciprocate by adding the lusty strength and humor which make the play memorable...
...least one oldster was in hearty agreement. "Before I came to this meeting," said a grey-haired widow from Kyoto, "I was planning to commit suicide. Now I have definitely made up my mind to wait a while...
Married. Canon Charles Earle Raven, 68, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, one-time vice chancellor (top administrator) of Cambridge University (1947-49); and Ethel Lyman Paine Moors, 82, widow of millionaire Boston Financier John F. Moors (who died last March); each for the second time; in Boston...