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...Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked man that it is impossible . . . not to feel ourselves in the presence...
...Devil also became the butt of some of the first fine sallies of Yankee humor. One of them is an ancestor of a long posterity of country-bumpkin v. city-slicker witsnappers that pass current to this...
...British Crown are the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. There, in sentimental moments, Norman islanders still sometimes toast William's distinguished successor George VI as duke rather than king. There, in hard-pressed moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear of theft...
...thrown open to the public for four days weekly. Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present owner. "Who's that old geezer?" one broadly accented tourist asked him, pointing to a portrait on the wall...
Unburied Treasures. Along with his interviews, Nevins has also collected more than 25,000 documents-letters to & from Presidents, diaries, private records of events of every sort. He has also obtained some older treasures. Dr. Haven Emerson was able to produce 30 letters from Ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chemist William Jay Schieffelin reached into a closet and pulled out the seven letters that John Jay wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler after the fall of Fort Ticonderoga...