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...pitcher's career was the polar opposite of Durocher's. A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Jordan was a spectacular Little Leaguer; by the time he reached high school, the Milwaukee Braves awarded him a $35,000 bonus. Sent to the Braves' farm club hi Mc-Cook, Neb., Jordan saw himself as the world's new Christy Mathewson. The world had other plans. In his first professional game, he struck out four batters -and walked five...
...word (Shakespeare would use it again in The Tempest). Once you start this tinkering, where do you stop? The Winter's Tale has quite a number of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere else in Shakespeare--such as neb, hoxes, callet, losel, pugging, dibble, caddises, barne, and pettitoes. Are these to be thrown out too? Let audiences do their homework, or suffer the consequences. (Some years back, Robert Graves announced that he was preparing a text of Hamlet with all the old words updated. Fortunately I never saw either...
...present, the bill is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was reintroduced into the 94th Congress by Senators John McLelland (D-Ark.) and Roman Hruska (R-Neb...
When they arrived with their wives and children in Sutherland, Neb., last month, neither Pham Tuong Do nor Tran Van Khang was surprised by the obvious differences between the tiny (pop. 840) corn-country community and their native Can Tho, second largest city in South Viet Nam. But they were overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit...
...humble opinion, ever since he was appointed by F.D.R. in 1939 he has been guilty of irreparable damage to the entire country. Jack Wilson Lincoln, Neb...