Agreed:There is enough violence in real life without our having to watch it on television, too. Not that you can always see it on television—the eye of the camera so often (and this cannot be ...

Popular parental advice to teens throughout history. What I imagine strangers think when they see me reading a book in public ...

THOSE of us who can recall being picked up by the military police during the late war for being out of uni-form—a button unbuttoned, a unit patch an inch too low on the sleeve—are bemused, and amused, ...

Dally Has a Lover,” a pair of one-acters at the Cherry Lane, are the first produced plays of a new dramatist named William Hanley. “Whisper” is set on a rocky hill in a park that is probably Central ...

Nine races is plenty for a two-year-old. Also, I’m a firm believer in the law of averages. SPEAKING of good things (or am I?), hundred-thousand-dollar races for three-year-olds are going to be as ...

The tour kicks off in my home town of Philadelphia, where I will be yelling “Time’s up!” at various A.T.M.s.

It could lose every game this season, and it is definitely going to lose its practically lifetime coach, Lou Little, who reaches the mandatory retirement age in December. Princeton’s shortage of ...

The revival of “Misalliance” that has been running at the Sheridan Square for several weeks is as merry as can be, and there is no reason to skip it just because you saw that other dandy revival at ...

The crowd bet so heavily on Coq Bruyere and Blockade that the bookies made both of them odds-on choices. This was to be expected, since these two have recently established themselves as the best ...

While Johnstown has earned only about $22,000, no other two-year-old has ever run as fast over the rather slow, ovate Jamaica course. Carrying 126 pounds, Johnstown polished off Beau James in a ...

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Only Dartmouth, a jewel of consistency, kept hewing to its line, and lost, once more— this time to Harvard, 20-14. Of all the falls of the mighty last Saturday, the most unreasonable was Navy’s. A ...