Word: brett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Loeb. There were some real people behind most of the characters in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises-Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, his older mistress, etc. In a fascinating backward look, the author (who served as Cohn's model) tells who was really who and how they lived, talked and drank in those nights before the sun rose...
...Enter Brett Ashley. Chances are that Harold Loeb would never have been a character in a Hemingway novel if Duff Twitchell had not riveted his eye in the mirror of the Select Cafe in Paris and said, in her low, exciting voice, "It is the only miracle"-meaning love. Duff took love and drink in immoderation. Depending on the flow of checks from England, she and her upper-Bohemian lover, Pat Swazey, lived on champagne or birdseed. Duff called strangers "darling" and friends "good chaps," had a title by marriage, and as anyone may guess, was the model for Hemingway...
...Ledlie Prize, top Faculty honor of the University, was yesterday awarded to Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Human Relations, who recently challenged business management to free "the vast amount of frozen human energy that exists in our modern organizations...
...addition to Griswold's tour, Harvard and Australian law schools are exchanging ideas through visiting faculty members. Peter Brett from Melbourne is at the Harvard Law School this year as Ezra Ripley Fair Teaching Fellow...
...sensation, I felt buoyant to the point of exaltation. And not necessarily because of the novelty alone. To Stallings, after 38 hours, zero gravity is old hat, yet he still feels exhilarated by it, aptly calls it "like swimming without getting wet." Airman Brett got no such emotional lift, only a solid, 4-g satisfaction from a job well done. It depends...