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...anyone really tack telos onto a life already so self-containing, so much a closed system, as Falstaff's? And if so, how? Falstaff was stymied. He tried a game of solitaire, but it came out; worked a cross-word puzzle, but it was a snap; cheered one Saturday for a Harvard upset victory, but only the experts found frustration (Falstaff was gloriously intoxicated and had a wonderful time). And still his hope gushed, so he found no frustration even in his many failures to achieve illusive melancholy. It was really bad news...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Togetherness | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

Today's game should also be a close one, with the Crimson trying to snap the three year jinx, and the Bruins attempting to make it four straight over Harvard...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Crimson Holds Edge In 57 Game Series | 11/15/1958 | See Source »

...Snap Judgment. In Cairns, Australia, the city council enacted a regulation requiring licenses for crocodiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Autobiographer Hurst still seems convinced that no one ever had a more difficult time pulling loose from parents. But eventually, on the end of a great rubber band that would occasionally snap her back to St. Louis, she returned to Manhattan alone. She worked as a salesgirl at Macy's, a waitress at Childs, wrote constantly. After several years, the Saturday Evening Post accepted the 36th manuscript she had sent them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Purple-Prose Heart | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...single by Bauer, who now has hit safely in 16 series games, a wild throw by Eddie Mathews and an intentional pass to Mantle had loaded them up. When Elston Howard forced Mantle at second, Bauer came home to snap Burdette's streak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Braves Win Second Straight Game; Yankee Killer Lew Burdette Hurls | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

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