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...Peters had been called to duty when Nadine Connor fell ill hours before a scheduled performance in Don Giovanni. Last week, between acts of her 303rd Met performance (in Cost fan Tutte), Peters accepted a silver anniversary bowl from Met Board President William Rockefeller. The "little girl from The Bronx," she observed happily, "had really made...
Freshman sensation Pete Fitzsimmons, led Harvard's cross country team to a 14th place finish Saturday in the IC4A's University Division Championships at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx...
...Crimson harriers conclude their season this afternoon as they participate in the annual IC4A meet in Van Cortland Park, the Bronx. Harvard passed up this meet as a team last year, and sent four individual runners instead...
Back in the early '50s, the U.S. Post Office found Love and Death obscene and refused to deliver mail to Legman's Bronx home-a small, rundown cottage furnished ceiling to floor with books and cats. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife packed their belongings, including one of the world's largest private collections of erotic and scatological literature, and moved to France. Since the death of his wife in 1966, he has remarried and fathered three children. The Legman home is on fifteen acres in Valbonne...
David Lurie is a gentle, sickly, abnormally intelligent child of the '30s, the natural prey of every strep germ and street bully in The Bronx. He is also a born survivor, protected by a warm and lively Orthodox Jewish family, and his narrative's interest turns not so much on whether David will escape his perils as on what he perceives with his wonderfully penetrating gaze. He sees, before anyone teaches him, the letters of two alphabets, Hebrew and English, and the intricate manner in which they relate. He sees his father, first as a vigorous, powerful...