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...Died. Austen Herbert Groom-John son, 54, co-father of the singing commercial, a onetime NBC program idea man who teamed with Announcer Alan Kent in 1939 to write "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot," a jingle that jangled for 20 years until Pepsi decided to "be sociable"; of a heart attack; in New York...
...heiress, of course. By the time one twin substitutes for another in the courtship-naturally falling in love with the lady-and Mamma is once again solvent, the reader has come to feel the spell of a slight-prose master whose writing suggests not only Jane Austen and Angela Thirkell but perhaps the Bobbsey Twins as well...
...Compare and contrast Plato and Jane Austen...
...RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...
...would be a great pity," Mark Twain said of Jane Austen, if they allowed her to die a natural death." There is a large, timid, hardly vocal class of people who feel the same way about Henry James. Those who have struggled unhappily through the lessons of the Master will find comfort at last in the breezy iconoclasm of Maxwell Geismar's Henry James and the Jacobites...