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...often rightly so. Cocteau was a master of the bon mot and the telling aphorism, and these pages teem with samples. Perhaps the best is the anecdotal quip that American Composer Ned Rorem relates in his introduction. A literary monthly once posed a question to several writers: "If your house were burning down and you could take one thing, what would it be?" "I'd take the fire," answered Jean Cocteau...
Other ads are following with the same soft sell, and winning genuine, though sometimes grudging admiration. Ned Doyle of Doyle Dane, which pioneered the style (Volkswagen, Avis) long ago, gives Mary Wells credit for being a "quite beautiful" ad woman ("Most of 'em look like haunted houses"). Recalling Mary's days at his shop, Doyle quickly adds that "everything she knows she learned here." Wherever she learned it, Mary Wells is surely one of the most successful graduates around...
...title represents a personal triumph for the East's best recruiter, Ned Harkness, who coached the last national champion from the East, R.P.I. in 1954. It was not a particularly proud day for the Ivy League, though, unless you consider 23-year-old Canadian semi-pros who are lured to America solely for their hockey ability as representatives of the Ivy League. Cornell's style of play, epitomized in the final by all-star defenseman Harry Orr's major penalty for spearing and all-star forward Doug Ferguson's ejection from the game for fighting, is just as alien...
...setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen...
...schools that holds a series edge over Harvard Coach Cooney Weiland, but its hockey program was decimated when Coach Ned Harkness packed up lock, stock, and players, and moved to Cornell in 1962. The Rensellaers started to recover with a good bunch of Canadian freshman last winter, and 9 of the varsity's current 14 players are from that crop...