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Being an avid fan of the Harvard hockey team for several years, as well as a reader of your newspaper. I wanted to write you about the great injustice that you have done one of the Crimson's players by refusing to mention him in any of your stories...
...servant (and lover), an enterprising Sierra Leone black named Wordsworth, has emptied Mother out and replaced her with some hot pot. The police get into the act and the chase runs from London to Paris to Istanbul, and finally to Paraguay. Greene is not only putting the reader on. He is putting himself on. We are back in The Orient Express (Greene's fourth novel), but an Orient Express without the Conrad Veidt monocles or the concupiscent dancers in the wagonlit. Just the respectable Mr. Pulling, smoking his first stick of pot, gift of an American girl who calls...
...astute reader may not need to be told about the Oedipus complex, but may need to know that "the Ashes" is a term given to the five-match series between England and Australia for world supremacy in cricket. * Excerpt: "Fantong refilled two glasses with double whiskeys the colour of her skin. The doctor remembered that in his house the Commissioner's Marie was waiting-for nothing; after Fantong there was nothing left he could give to any woman...
THESE lines by Rolfe Humphries were written in response to a TIME reader's comment on an earlier Humphries poem. The first work was commissioned by TIME and accompanied our story on the reopening of Belmont Park race track in 1968. Humphries, himself a racing buff, set down his own memories of Belmont's sights, sounds and hues. Reader Robert F. Kelley of Manhattan wrote TIME'S editors, thanking them for the poem and for "stirring the breeze of memory so that it moves a few lovely leaves on the old trees." We published the letter...
...with no more warning than had marked his arrival. In the family's routine he left "a very small blank-precisely owl-shaped." Service's very small book is not precisely owl-shaped, but it serves most excellently to fill a blank in an attentive reader's life that hardly anyone would suspect was there...