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...Sixteen hours later, Negreiros' body, escorted by Lima's chief of police and a detachment of assault guards, was buried in the municipal cemetery...
...Sixteen-year-old Johnny Aiso was an honor student at Hollywood (Calif.) High School when he won the district oratory contest in 1926. His subject was "The American Constitution and What It Means to Me." By winning the district title, Johnny had put himself in the running for the state championship and the national finals in Washington, D.C. But there was one thing that set Johnny Aiso apart, or so some Hollywood people thought: though he was U.S.-born and raised, Johnny was the son of a Japanese gardener...
...Sixteen-year-old Cleopatra runs through the play like quicksilver-a kitten all cuddle and claws, still worlds away from Shakespeare's Serpent of Old Nile. Caesar, finding her a petulant child, leaves her a queen and woman, with a new authority and cruelty. But it is Caesar who really dominates the stage: a Caesar who is neither the image on a Roman coin nor the stern voice of the Roman Capitol, but a great and contradictory man molded into a peculiarly Shavian hero. Shaw's Caesar is much more the clement conqueror than the model for dictators...
...Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had been originally planned for nothing but the Commencement dinner...
Accent on Accents: There are too many Phi Beta Kappa members in government service, Senator Karl Mundt, South Dakota Republican, told newspaper executives in Chicago. "I shudder to think what the boys with the Harvard accents have cost the country in the last sixteen years," Mundt said, shuddering. Newsweek, October...