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From boyhood, when he lay in a Racine (Wis.) attic gobbling Shakespeare, Hecht regarded the world simply as a mint for the coining of "words" and "phrases." Most young bibliophiles "take sides" pas sionately when they read a book, regard less of whether they understand all the words, but young Hecht managed to do just the opposite. He recognized no "characters" in Shakespeare, only "words [that] seemed to hang in the air like feats of magic." He was only 16 when he landed the job of "picture chaser" on the Chicago Daily Journal. He was "sent forth each dawn...
...seen the show that opened at the Victoria & Albert last week (it will run through the end of 1954), Queen Mary would have had little to quibble about. Most of it was arranged just as she had displayed it herself. The result was an entrancing glimpse into the royal attic of the last Great Victorian of the British royal family. As one visitor wrote in the weekly Time and Tide: "I felt as though I had strayed into the Paradise of All Good Children, to enjoy on a perpetual Sunday afternoon the exquisite and unlimited treasures of some celestial Grandmother...
...Attic Images. This week an Englishwoman of 40 has done it, and done it in her first book. An English Year is the work of Nan Fairbrother, the mother of two boys, 11 and 12, wife of London Physician William McKenzie. It would be easy to say that her book is not about anything much, and in a way that would be right. During the war she spent three years on a farm in Buckinghamshire, while her husband was overseas with the R.A.F. From the attic of the 16th century house she could see London, 40 miles away, being destroyed...
Andrew T. Cole, Jr. '54 will receive the Bowdoin (Classics) prize of $100 for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage from Cedric H. Whitman's "Sophocles, A Study of Herolic Humanism." Kenneth J. Reckford '54 will get an Honorable Mention...
...door to his court remained wide open. Since Louis insisted that his noblemen live there, housing was a nightmare. With 10.000 people living in the chateau at Versailles, it was as crowded as a slum. The bearer of many a celebrated name had to be content with a dismal attic room, though it seemed to be worth it to bask in the rays of the Sun King: the nobleman of the day counted himself lucky if he could become the official custodian of the royal chamber...