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...What a Pretty Boy." The very first entry (about 1793) warns of storms-to-come. The little peer with the deformed foot is about five years old; he is out walking with his nurse in Aberdeen. Up comes another nursemaid and pipes: "What a pretty boy Byron is! What a pity he has such a leg!" The little boy's eyes blaze. Striking at her with a little whip, he cries furiously: "Dinna speak of it!" But when he meets another small boy with a deformed foot, the little monster's rage turns to laughter: "Come...
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Head & Heart." Turley learned his poise the hard way-in the minor leagues as a youngster of 16, with Belleville, 111. in 1946. He moved up gradually, learning as he went-to Aberdeen, S.D. in 1949, Wichita in 1950, San Antonio...
Tillich, however, will not teach at the University until the fall of 1955, after filling commitments to deliver the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and to lecture at Union Theological Seminary next spring...
...borrowed a title, Baron Corvo, took it to Scotland and began to dine out in great pretension. The canny Scots, however, would not con. Soon he was back on his rent, and the landlord meant business. "They entered the Baron's bedroom," ran an account in the Aberdeen Free Press, "and the Baron was given ten minutes to dress and clear...