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...lured afar by a popular hoax...
...child of a respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful marriage, she met Venn again...
...away. In Montenegro Adamic heard a story which he says illustrates the Montenegrin's two great virtues: A man about to be shot was asked if he had ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer him." Adamic was offered and refused the Jugoslavian Order of the White Eagle, afterward had a mutually cold interview with King Alexander, whom he considers of a piece with "the rest of the tyrants and dictators...
...villagers of Sequals, near Venice, will not soon forget the past fortnight. All ordinary business stood practically still while the populace, plus a stream of visitors from afar, milled around the Carnera house every day. They wanted to see the Gran Sasso (''Big Rock") as he trained for his ''fight" in Rome with Paulino Uzcudun. Bustling importantly, Carnera's father tried to wave the crowds away. "Let Primo alone!" he shrilled. But the crowds hung on, grateful for an occasional glimpse of the monstrous, slow-witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers...
...mist. Gertrude Stein is no such writer. Like a huge squat mountain on a distant border of the literary kingdom, obscured not only by the cloudy procession of more Aprilly authors but by the self-induced fog that hangs around her close-cropped top, she has loomed from afar over the hinterland of letters, a sphinxlike, monolithic mass. Twenty years she has squatted there; eyes accustomed to the landscape are beginning to recognize something portentous in her massive outline. By the time-honored process of getting older Gertrude Stein, though she remains as mysterious as ever, has made herself...