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...been done by program after program of foreign aid is not in danger of being undone by the image of America as it appears in program after program on the television screens of the world." "Just like This Is Your Life," cracked Britain's Herbert Morrison, now Baron Morrison of Lambeth, 74, but the longtime Laborite warhorse was himself sniffling into his handkerchief, and much of his audience-which had just honored him with a vellum book of tribute-was weeping openly. Occasion: the retirement of "our 'Erb" from the treasureship of London's Labor Party organization...
Leicester Hemingway, dubbed by Ernest "The Baron" for reasons unexplained, reveals himself as the archetypal kid brother. He was 16 years younger. He adored "Stein," as he called him. And he took naturally to Stein's patronizing pontifications on how to do anything, from landing a fish to landing a woman, and was happy to serve as batman, drink mixer, errand boy and good listener whenever the Great Man felt the urge. His book about his brother is not really a biography. But as a chronological series of personal memories, plus cullings from Hemingway's letters, it adds...
...modern times, it was to an Austrian castle of theirs that Edward VIII went after abdicating; and it was upon the Rothschild fortune that the incoming Nazis trained a covetous eye. With steel-helmeted SS men, pistols drawn, two yards from his table. Baron Louis ate lunch amid footmen and sauces, used the fingerbowl after fruit, enjoyed his cigarette, took his heart medicine, approved the next day's menu, and went into custody. When they invaded France the Nazis looted 4,000 "major art items'' from various Rothschild mansions. When reassembled after World War II, the collection...
Died. Hugh Dalton. Baron of Forest and Frith, 74, onetime power in Britain's Labor Party, a stentorian, expensively tailored Eton-and-Cambridge product who renounced court life-his father was tutor to Queen Victoria's children-for Socialist politics, rose to become Minister of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's World War II coalition government and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's postwar Labor government, but in 1947 blasted his career by indiscreetly leaking his budget proposals to a reporter friend, thereafter sank ever deeper into political obscurity until Queen Elizabeth appointed...
Mania for Numbers. The origin of such mechanical music is much older than Orwell. The German mathematician Baron Gottfried von Leibniz (1646-1716) observed that "composers are simply men with a mania for numbers." Others have also noted the persistent relationship between music and math-between pure science and pure art. Barbaud himself began speculating on the musical potential of computers after reading that Haydn leaned heavily on the laws of probability and sometimes rolled dice to make a choice among possible chord and key combinations. Every type of music, Barbaud decided, must have its own laws, all equally rigid...