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...singular complexity, Jewel is diligently faithful to its source, the late Paul Scott's magisterial four-volume novel known as the Raj Quartet. Like E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Scott's story circles around charges of rape and the trials, both personal and legal, that ensue. Like Forster, Scott asks how Britain, in some ways the smallest of small worlds, managed to govern India, one of the hugest and most heterogeneous of countries. But Scott's book is set about two decades later than Forster's, in the final five years of British...
...aquamen opened last night with a stunning victory in the 400-yd. medley relay. The quartet of Berkoff, Lars Rierson, Bill McCloskey and Co Captain Bob Hrabchak finished a full four seconds ahead of its closest competition which also came from Harvard...
...seven weeks he missed at the start of the season (knee surgery) coincided with the suspension of Outfielder Willie Wilson, evidently the only member of a quartet of jailed drug offenders whose skills warranted Royal rehabilitation. He has repaid the debt with a .300 batting average and an improved disposition. First Baseman Willie Aikens was banished by the Royals even before his replacement was found: Steve Balboni, who in 122 games hit 27 homers and struck out 136 times. Another motley find was Darryl Motley, for whom the Royals had no minor league space last year in Omaha...
...quartet of comedies and thrillers for dog-day afternoons...
...voices and instruments through more than six decades of road tours, radio, television and movie appearances and more than 2,000 recordings; after a stroke; in Danville, Pa. A Penn State engineering student who was rejected by the college glee club, he formed his first band (a jazz quartet) in 1917, eventually adding voices and more instruments. Between its 1933 debut and 1949, it presented one of radio's most popular shows; the advent of rock dimmed its luster, however, and in the years before Waring's official 1980 retirement the size of both the group...