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Duggan's Lady for Ransom is told in the first person by an 11th century soldier-turned-monk who never raises his voice. In a Byzantine Empire setting in which rape and pillage were as common as piety, Author Duggan does not muster enough sex-and-sadism scenes to outfit a single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse...
Class secretary was in the 11th spot, while crew captain was 15th, and captain of the baseball team was 18th...
There is probably no one he will meet in freshman this year, with the possible exception of Exeter's Paul Martin, who can give him any trouble. He best Milton Street, the country's 11th ranking amateur, last week. Street will play him again today in order to prove his loss a fluke, but a victory over Street, fluke or not, is an achievement...
...direct and produce, this play is a fit challenge for a competent group of amateurs. Pirandello explores a madman's world, with quick thrusts of dialogue, first expository, then dramatic. The madman jumps between the world of modern reality--called sanity--and his other real world of the 11th century, in which he is Henry...
Michigan State, which copped the Big Ten title last week, was the winning team, barely edging a surprising Pittsburgh septet, 82 to 84. Cornell, the top Ivy League team, placed fifth with 147 points, Yale was 11th with 309, and the Crimson 12th with 316. Princeton, with 608 points, was the last of the 22 teams to finish...