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...major networks, Joe Sidnor has been frantically searching for a copy of the words. Try Ben "Showers" Nielson, Joe. A moment of silence for our old pal K.G. (Cagey) Pickle, the Birmingham Buzz Bomb. Known to the third deck and patrons of the Merry-Go-Round as a natural wit, old Kirb will really be missed by all who knew...
...Shahn, New Jerseyite, veteran social protester - for a show of tempera paintings forming an illustrative pageant of wit, horror, love and leftward politics...
...scientists, Sir Arthur was affectionately known as the senior partner in the firm of "Eddington & [Sir James] Jeans, Interpreters of the Universe." Shy, neat, reed-nosed Sir Arthur looked precisely like the British university don he was, and he discoursed on his cosmic subject with a wit and clarity rare among scientists. He set down in brook-clear language a masterly simplification of Einstein's theory of relativity, spent most of his life explaining the enigmas of abstract science for the benefit of laymen (The Nature of the Physical World, The Expanding Universe). He enlivened these lessons with attempts...
Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 56, of Oxford, England, is a melancholy-looking wit who likes to do two things: walk and write. He writes about everything from morals to murders. His latest book, The New Testament in English (Sheed & Ward; $3), a translation from St. Jerome's 4th-Century Latin Vulgate, is for English-speaking Roman Catholics the first fresh translation of the New Testament from the Latin since the standard Douay version was published at Reims...
Translator Knox, son of a low church Anglican bishop, wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. At Eton he edited the school humorous magazine, The Outsider. At Oxford he was famed for his wit and for the huge, odorous tobacco pouch which won the nickname Cloaca Maxima (principal sewer of ancient Rome). After a few years as Anglican chaplain at Oxford's Trinity College, Knox was converted to Roman Catholicism, ordained to the priesthood. He returned to Oxford as Catholic chaplain, where he has continued to turn out books, witty poems, and anchovy toast for Sunday tea. Discussing...