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...industry predictably asked Kentucky's courts to erase the new ruling, counted on at least moral support from Louie Nunn, whose gubernatorial campaign they had supported. They were in for a disappointment. Not only did Nunn go along with the order, but he also persuaded Ned Breathitt's director of reclamation, Elmore Grim, who had helped draw up the regulations, to stay on the job. When a restraining order against carrying out the regulations was knocked down in court, Grim pledged strict enforcement...
...believes Cornell's hockey team is nine goals better than Harvard's, nor that the Crimson can't compete with an all-Canadian squad, but many have been sucking sour grapes for some time over Big Red Coach Ned Harkness's recruiting tactics. Probably prompted by this discontent, the ECAC last week adopted a rule previously in effect for NCAA championships: any foreigner attending college here loses a year of varsity eligibility for each year he has competed in his own country over...
...monastery." This, in fact, is just what Morris first tried to do. He was just 21, an Oxford undergraduate who had inherited the then fat income of ?900 a year from his speculator father, and had acquired an enthusiasm for medieval art. In college, he became friends with "Ned" Burne-Jones; together they doted on every moldy pre-Renaissance stone in the place and, for a while, considered following the celebrated Catholic convert John Henry Newman. They and their friends called themselves a "brotherhood," forerunner of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters...
Susan Channing as Josie Mansfield is perhaps too sophisticated given Mayer's dialog, but in the third act she is genuinely moving, and always extremely beautiful. As Ned Stokes, Fisk's romantic rival and assassin, Kenneth Shapiro skillfully conveys youth and attractiveness, while remaining intrinsically hollow and middle-class. Mayer knows that Stoke's aspirations to Fiskdom are pathetic and inevitably doomed to failure, and Shapiro gets this across...
...Ned Rorem, composer of some of the best of today's art songs, says: "They are colleagues of mine, speaking the same language with different accents...