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Gene had a "deep streak of piety" and organized the trio's regular evening prayers. What bothered him was whether his mother had been able to collect on his life insurance: she needed the money badly. Gene would think it all over and shake his head. "If mother could see me now!" he would say with amazement. . . . Says Dixon: "She wouldn't have liked the look...
Chief Petty Officer Harold F. Dixon was the leader of the three. His story is an astonishing self-portrait. Dixon has no humble streak in his nature. At 41, "a tough old chief petty officer" with 22 years service behind him, he knew precisely what he meant to do with that raft. "I was determined to sail it if I could. And I maintain that I did sail it. I worked like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally...
Roaring along in high gear, and with a five game winning streak to show for it. Coach Stahl's nine young men move into Providence today to match base hits with a Brown team in the second and last inter-collegiate game of the summer season...
Coach Stahl will depend on Warren "Moe" Berg, the owner of a four game winning streak, for the Crimson hurling chores. Brown is expected to counter with their ace moundsman, work-horse Earl Nichols, who engineered last month's whitewashing of the Crim...
Death pervades each of Virginia Woolf's best books. In Jacob's Room a dead young man's life fades in other people's memories like a match streak on a tepid stove lid. In Mrs. Dalloway an image of all London shines and synchronizes beneath the reverberations of London's belling clocks. In To The Lighthouse, which Critic Daiches calls "the perfection of Virginia Woolf's art," the rhythms of time and death and change suffuse and subtilize a half-mystic seascape, a long-delayed excursion, an equally delayed resolving of family discord...