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Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...
Charges of leftish sabotage are made by André Maurois (Tragedy in France), famed author of Ariel and Byron. Like Hambro, Maurois insists that the "actual traitors . . . were not at all numerous. . . ." He gives four reasons for the debacle: 1) stupid industrial mobilization which permitted irreplaceable skilled workers to be drafted, so that Renault (tanks and trucks) was reduced from 30,000 workers to some 7,000; 2) engineers and financiers thought World War II was World War I, built factories which could not turn out essential weapons until 1941 or '42; 3) strategy was planned...
...turning out communiques of cadenced sentences and well-chosen phrases. Handling world-wide radio broadcasts was heavy, bespectacled, sentimental Georges Duhamel, author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and the French Blockade Ministry. Pretty, serious, half-Polish...
...paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back...
...start Thingumabob bobbled. He was way back in seventh place at the end of the first sixteenth. Then he began to move up. At the end of the first furlong he was in second place, coming up in an open switch on the inside of Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...