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Willis E. Lamb Jr., professor of physics at Stanford University .... Sc.D...
...getting ready for his fight with Challenger Ezzard Charles. In that green corner of the "Borscht Belt," most men are measured by the size of their appetites. Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops. To make matters worse...
...reform. He even took one young prostitute to live with him and "encouraged her to weep over her vile life." He "read books to her every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words of Swinburne: 0 lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled snakes that are fed from my breast...
...Hubert Lamb, who teaches composition at the Longy School, wrote his songs Innocentium Carmina two years ago. Drawn from the medieval poetry collection Carmina Burana, they retain the original Latin text, scored for baritone and wind quintet. It is scarcely surprising to learn that Mr. Lamb is an authority on the work of Igor Stravinsky. Innocentium draws heavily on the Russian master's style, and at times almost flagrantly suggests the music of Oedipus Rex. Nevertheless, it provides varied and often quite beautiful settings of the six love poems; however similar their techniques, Lamb is far more willing than Stravinsky...
...Roaring Lions. At his usual corner table in the Carroll Arms Hotel, during the luncheon recess, McCarthy gulped down a Manhattan, a slice of lamb and coffee. His suit coat was off, his shirt clung to him, soaked through. The going had been hot & heavy, and there was more, much more, to come...