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...BRENDAN GILL describes Porter's life and times in the introduction to George Kimball's anthology Cole (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: more money than you'd care to think about). Gill gives us the old, familiar story: the debonair roue, writing At Long Last Love between swoons into unconsciousness while lying pinned under his horse with both legs broken, tiring the second half of his life in agony after the accident. The midwestern kid who made good; the character like Auntie Mame or his own Katie who came east and set the town on its ear, the country...
...Lion's strong points is the depth and quality of their pitching staff. Last year's starting rotation of Ray Nawrocki, Jim Winskowicz, and captain Pete Downs are all returning with more experience. This trio is bolstered by two promising sophomores. Glenn Erickson and John Gill. elsewhere, the veterans include all-league outfielder Jesse Parks and one of the conference's top power hitters Paul Kaliades...
Unfortunately, for those of us who loved reading Gill Thorp, in the comics or Frank Merriwell in the library, the myth is being disproven. And in the latest issue of Psychology Today, the final verdict on athletics is recorded: sports contribute little if anything to the development of character...
...vote is meaningless seems to have relatively few adherents among the young. This month the Boston suburb of Woburn provided a nutshell refutation of Marcuse's argument. During most of July, the town had been racked by firebombings and clashes between youths and the police. Mayor Edward F. Gill rejected virtually all the youths' demands. After an angry protest meeting, more than 50 of the young suddenly stalked across to Town Hall to protest in a quieter but far more effective way. They registered to vote. Said a spokesman: "When they turned us down, they taught...
Under the Palms. Nor is Angeleno architecture the appalling hodgepodge of the bland, the garish and the awful that its critics claim. Packed with masterworks by architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Irving Gill and Richard Neutra, it ranks with the world's best, Banham believes. His conclusion: L.A. is not a horrible harbinger of how the auto and the single-family house can wreck other U.S. cities. Rather, the city of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable...