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...with typical Ivy League impertinence had named a few of them. The highest peak he measured thus became Mt. Harvard (14,399 ft.), the next highest Mt. Yale (14,172), and a few years later, a third peak naturally was named Mt. Princeton (14,177). Not one Colorado peak bore the name of a Colorado campus...
After three out of the first four varsity golfers won their matches, the drizzle started and Amherst bore down to win the last three pairings and the match...
...comment on Mr. Nixon . . . [but] I cannot, in justice to a record of which I am sincerely proud, keep silent [on TIME'S Jan. 18 statement recalling Nixon's attack on Voorhis during the 1946 campaign] . . . Even if it were true that "only one piece of legislation bore Voorhis' name," that would be no reflection whatever on the worth of a man's service in Congress . . . Most bills bear the names of committee chairmen. The point, therefore, is an altogether technical one. But the plain fact is that, for example, bills for the benefit of veterans...
Despite a few stirring moments and occasionally, beautiful imagery, Dryden's poem is generally silly and would be a woeful bore with anything but skillful reading. Director Peter Judd did not make the mistake of some productions and let the performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines as if they were the Twenty-Third Psalm, and the results were doubly hilarious. Among numerous principals, Nora Sayre transformed the mealy-mouthed Emmeline into a vivacious heroine, and Thomas Merriam as Merlin romped through the comic role of "a famous Inchanter...
Official dinners bore him; he accepts no more than three or four such invitations a year. The nearest thing to real relaxation for Van Dusen comes in the summer, when he takes about six weeks off to spend with his wife and three college-age boys at his country place at Sorrento, Me. Even here, he spends at least three hours a day studying and writing in a remote and tiny cabin named Seclusion, where he has written most of his twelve books and countless articles. (His wife has a similar cabin. Its name: Solitude...