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...Roosevelt, and the date was March 27, 1944-four months before the President was to be nominated for his fourth term, eleven months before he was to attend the crucial Big Three conference at Yalta, 13 months before he was to die in Warm Springs, Ga., of the massive stroke that, based on the medical evidence, seemed all too likely...
...rest all claims that it was not the best in the land. The meeting between the Eastern and Western Sprint champions was billed as the first real race for the national heavyweight title. Although many critics doubted whether Harvard could hold its own against the Huskies, stroke Al Shealy, Steve Row, captain Dave Fellows, Rick Cashin, Ed Woodhouse, Tiff Wood, Blair Brooks, Ollie Scholle, and cox Dave Weinberg had little trouble in proving their claim as the best...
...Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired the McCarthy-Army hearings six years later. After suffering a stroke in 1969, he refused to resign and in February 1972, he became the first Senator ever to be stripped of seniority and key committee assignments by his fellow legislators...
...watched Dave Hill stroke seven-irons off the Pleasant Valley Country Club practice tee, his words of two days earlier ran through my mind. Most pro golfers are, in the end, Southern, inarticulate and super-straight. But Hill, a wiry Coloradoan who downs three beers and two packs of cigarettes per tournament round, is something of an exception. Very rarely does he mince words about why he plays ("I need the money--I gotta pay that fuckin' alimony") or what he thinks about the places at which he plays ("They must have had a goddaman artist out there with...
Ideal Somnambulism. At one stroke, Moreau was canonized as a patron saint of dandyism and decadence, the father of symbolist art. His canvases, exotic in their spurts and blooms of color, are populated by pale androgynous youths and languid women encased, like scarab beetles, in glittering carapaces of emerald and embroidery. Such pictures were hailed as setting the tone of an entire sensibility-the same cast of imagination that in literature ran from Flaubert's Salammbô to Swinburne and Wilde, heavy with allusions to enigmatic and castrating Fatal Women. Moreau's own work was rich in homosexual...