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Heidi Blake An investigative journalist and contributing writer to The New Yorker.

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In the first place, Princeton had the benefit of starting off this year without any great prospects. That is always, or almost always, bad news for the others. The Tigers have a habit of turning out ...

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I always liked the lima bean, A pleasant vegetable Of dainty and becoming green, But I am never able To satisfy my appetite At eighty cents a portion, For every five and ten-cent bite Tastes faintly ...

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Mr. Bloch has been, by trade, a professor of music (in his spare time he is an important creative artist) and the cognoscenti stroked their tingling hair out of their ears in anticipation of a sedate ...

In the wealth of other things there is the “May Belfort” of Toulouse-Lautrec, two superb Segonzacs, and canvases by such masters as Fantin-Latour, Forain, Manet, Monet, Mori-sot, Pissarro and Redon.