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John Chapman was one of them. He adapted himself to the change with the philosophic abandon of a publisher who sees himself on the verge of losing a valuable author. Besides, Chapman had another "boarder." This time it was Florence Nightingale's cousin, Barbara Leigh Smith -one of the "tabooed" Smiths, so called because the parents, being progressive thinkers, were in the habit of having children out of wedlock...
...daybreak, British planes from an aircraft carrier spotted the Italians again, identified the cripple as the crack, 1,620-ton destroyer Artigliere. Believing British ships near, the other Italians abandoned the Artigliere and cut for home, as the York and Ajax arrived for the kill. The Italians began to abandon ship. "A few seconds later," said a British witness, "came the order for the York to finish her off. The crew were told to abandon ship, and floats were thrown overboard for them...
Down to the last detail of posture and strut, Miss Hayes would have pleased even Shakespeare. Perhaps he might have thought her occasionally too gentle for some rougher moments, but then the audience, too, refused to roar in the old Elizabethan abandon at some of his slickest puns and sexy jokes. Malvolio, the perfect fop from curtain to curtain, is a much narrower part than Viola's. But every opportunity for satire, characterization and even, in spots, sincere drama, is exploited by Maurice Evans so completely that we are fortunate the part is in the hands of the "master...
Adolf Hitler's attempt at the a sea-borne invasion of Britian was said by the air ministry to have been fustrated on Sept. 16 when RAF bombers laid siege to his massed transports and forced the Nazi troops to abandon ship...
Will Yale and Harvard go the road of Chicago and abandon intercollegiate football? Miller of Yale says no, and Bill Bingham says no. But small-time football has a way of dying on its feet. Take Chicago, for instance. They were playing in Wabash's league before they quit...