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When Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote that "the pen is mightier than the sword," it's unlikely that he had the fate of the Harvard fencing team in mind. But nevertheless, the Penn that Harvard came up against last weekend was far mightier than any sword the Crimson could raise in resistance and handed Harvard its fourth straight Ivy loss, 15-12, Saturday in Philadelphia...
...appreciate your restraint in not blue-penciling Phyllis McGinley's remarks about Bulwer-Lytton...
...Bulwer-Lytton. As the daughter and second child of an unsuccessful and fiddle-footed land speculator, she grew up with no settled home. She was born in Ontario, Ore., but her childhood memories begin with Iliff, Colo. ("It looked like a stage set for High Noon"), where the McGinleys settled awhile to farm an acreage that her father had been unable to sell...
...miserable as it might sound. Admits Phyllis: "We were land poor-the kind of poor that had mahogany furniture and solid silver. We had books, and I read a great deal. I am probably the only person left living who has read the entire works of Bulwer-Lytton-when I was ten years old. We had 35 volumes of them...
...four winds, Mayan priests puffed their pipes to please the gods; the Sioux passed around the calumet to seal the peace; 16th century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...