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...with a quaint and slightly stilted charm that defines them as exactly what they are: impressive pieces of Victorian bric-a-brac. Houston gustily presents the doctor as a tintype of the ruddy regimental; Neville dryly displays the detective as a standard Victorian eccentric, an intellectual who beneath a mask of pedantry conceals a sad little secret: he is really just a middle-class boy who never quite made Eton and never quite got over...
...That horrible old lady!" she gasps as she staggers toward the nearest exit. The guards charge into the ladies room prepared to corner a criminal, but all they find is a grey wig and a rubber mask and their own foolish faces in the lavatory mirror...
...sophomores were especially good--big Dan Martell and Bob Johnson. Martell, playing with a hockey goalie's mask because he had been clawed in the face during a practice, was hitting the floor and grabbing more than his share of rebounds. Johnson made some fancy plays on offense and defense, indicating he can make the team without having played freshman ball. Johnson was out of action last year with a bone cyst in his right ankle, but he worked out faithfully at Hemenway with his PT-seeking classmates...
...MASK OF APOLLO by Mary Renault. 371 pages. Pantheon...
...choking fumes billowed into their compartments, they tried to escape, only to be forced back by the deadly smoke and heat in the passageways. Lieut. Commander Marvin Reynolds opened his porthole and managed to alert some hands on the top deck; they handed down a hose and an oxygen mask. Then Reynolds spent three hours spraying water around his oven-hot compartment. Commander Richard M. Bellinger, a 205-lb. jet pilot who was awarded the Silver Star last month, ripped out an air conditioner, wriggled naked through the tiny opening to a burning catwalk and escape. Others were...