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Died. Thomas Austin Yawkey, 73, benevolently paternalistic owner of the Boston Red Sox; of leukemia; in Boston. Yawkey, heir to a timber and mining fortune, bought the moribund Sox in 1933 and over the years spent lavishly to acquire such top players as Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and most recently Oakland's Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers (the sale of their contracts was nullified by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn). So generously treated that they were nicknamed the Gold Sox, the team never won a World Series for Yawkey but did take three American League pennants...
...archetype is instantly recognizable: curling, confident smile, tight pants, shirt unbuttoned with studied casualness, a flashing medallion nestled in the virile hair of a bronzed chest. He is the heir to centuries of tradition and folklore, the ultimate seducer, the possessor of alchemical secrets of the amorous arts: he is the mythical Italian lover. The myth took a body blow, so to speak, with the recent publication of excerpts from a 400-page study titled Report on the Sexual Behavior of Italians, or, as it was quickly dubbed, "The Italian Kinsey Report." The Italian male emerges from the study...
Beginning the play as an erstwhile rakehell son, Henry (Paul Rudd) ends it as the lord of two realms who is planning to father an heir. The purpose of that utterly beguiling last-act courtship scene with Katherine (Meryl Streep) is, apart from statecraft, to show us that he has triumphantly undergone the arduous initiation rites of manhood...
...raggedy men knelt to fire is now the corner of Broadway and 116th Street. Volume III is remarkable in following the often neglected fighting that took place late in the war in the Carolinas, pitting Cornwallis and Banastre Tarleton against Daniel Morgan and Washington's then heir apparent Nathanael Greene...
...Anne's death, Parliament awarded the Crown to the nearest Protestant heir, James I's great-grandson George, Elector of Hannover, and great-grandfather of the present King...