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...Vagabond is frank to admit that he is not as well acquainted with the literary Franklin as he would like to be. He does know that his Autobiography, the Dogwood Papers and the Almanack are delightful. And it is indeed with pleasure that he goes to Harvard 6 tomorrow at ten to hear more about this thrifty, jolly, wise American...
...books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when, all in one day, his pet French bulldog Bouboule (last of a series) died and a maid was killed falling downstairs...
...policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor. Last week seizure threatened 75,000 Czechoslovak acres belonging to a reigning sovereign, gentle old Franz Paul I, Prince of tiny Liechtenstein. This year Europe's register of kings, the famed Almanack de Gotha, has picked Franz Paul I for its frontispiece, displays him in hoary majesty. That from this old man the young republic of Czechoslovakia should plan to seize 75,000 acres seemed monstrous, infuriated the 10,000 Teuton Catholics who populate the Principality of Liechtenstein...
...works have included writings on English and Scottish Ballads, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Witchcraft in Old and New England, the Old Farmer and his Almanack, and many others, ranging through all periods of the language. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, as well as being the recipient of many signal honors in this country...
...doing things humbly. At 25 he was summoned from Paris to the summer palace of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to paint the Archbishop Gregorious. His portraits of the Archbishop, the Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha, visited every royal court except that of China. Like every brilliantly successful court portraitist, he has had to be a diplomat as well as an artist. The Countess Greffulh is almost unique among his subjects in that she considered his painting of her insufficiently lovely. Immensely popular with...