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Henry remained in India for 35 tortuous years. He married Annette Arkroyd, who had come to India with the naive but passionate determination to educate and emancipate the women.
An Unsafe Man. Husband & wife were equally well-read, equally opposed to pedantic thinking ("Anything clear and definite," said Henry, "is only another word for limited"), hard-working and unsentimental ("I know I value some qualities more than tenderheartedness," said Annette). In his office of district judge, Henry was a...
The Naughty Sun. In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities." Though "relatively humble" people, Henry and Annette lived and traveled with as many as 39 servants (senior officials carried a train of...
Sin & Expiation. Henry and Annette would not have left so many letters if they had not been forced to spend half their lives apart-he, sitting in the fetid courtroom "jabbering Bengali 6 or 7 hours every day with the artful dodgers;" she, reviving her pallid children in the cool...
To everyone's relief, the secret was out. Last week a Fort Worth matron, Mrs. Ruth Annette Subbie, 45, answered her telephone, sobbing with excitement, screamed out the identity of "Miss Hush" (Dancer Martha Graham), and won the biggest heap of prizes in radio history: $21,500 worth. After...