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...Queen left Beaumont on Feb. 2, bound for Norfolk and points north, with a full cargo of molten sulphur. The ship's last radio report, on Feb. 3, placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans. Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest, a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. There had been no S 0 S, no warning of trouble. The Sulphur Queen and its crew of 39 had simply disappeared...
...boundless: "He knew by heart the forms of the Southern clouds on the 30th of April, 1882, and could compare them in his memory with the mottled streaks on a book in Spanish binding he had only seen once and with the outlines of the foam raised by an oar in the Rio Negro the night before the Quebracho uprising." Borges contrasts this world of heightened perceptions with the real world of clumsy generalizations. In Deutsches Requiem, a commandant of a Nazi concentration camp becomes an example of an overthinking man. Stifling his feelings and perceptions, he justifies the slaughter...
Guest director for this American Shakespeare Festival production is Word Baker. Aurally, the result is almost consistently delightful. But Baker is evidently afraid to let the play pull its own oar; and he has done his best to scuttle the script by piling on a lot of irrelevant and irreverent stage gimmicks and by juxtaposing costumes that clash in both style and period...
...Freshman race was the big disappointment of the day for Harvard fans. After leading the field for the first half of the 2000 meter course, one of the freshman eight caught a bad crab, losing his oar. By the time the boat recovered they had lost more than a length on M.I.T. and could not gain it back by the finish...
Love will probably stick with the surprise line-up which gave Harvard its unexpected victory over M.I.T., Princeton, and Dartmouth last weekend. After a brief try at number six oar, Captain Perry Boyden has been reinstated at stroke, but the new line-up features only one other varsity letterman, Luke Breck-inridge, at number three oar...