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...Basil Robert McAllister, a wispy, stoop-shouldered Bronx bank teller, first fell in love with Finland at the New York World's Fair, in 1939. He visited the Finnish Pavilion on his days off, met and liked the Finns who worked there. A bachelor, he joined a Finnish club in Manhattan, went to dinners and dances there. When the fair ended, he began to correspond with his Finnish friends who had returned home. Said he: "The Finns are very straightforward and honest and dependable. They agree with me and I agree with them...
...Beecham raged at Seattle as an "esthetic dustbin," but for two years during the war, he had musicians and sellout audiences on the edges of their seats (he sometimes stopped the orchestra in the middle of a movement to lecture the audience on its manners). Such other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors or the insubordination among the musicians had made life unbearable. The last conductor to get "the Seattle treatment," ruddy-faced Carl Bricken, 49, survived a petition...
From the true Catholic point of view, his novels are depraved, perverted and, above all, malicious, in the strict theological sense of the word. His favorite characters, like Lady Metroland and Basil Seal in Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags, do evil gratuitously, for the sheer fun of the thing...
...Basil Kingsley Martin, the cheerfully scolding editor of Britain's weekly New Statesman and Nation, looks like a nonconformist minister-which his father was. In his column last fortnight, he let fly at one of his favorite targets-the Church...
...More Flags, written in six weeks while Waugh was cooped up on a troopship during World War II, described Basil Seal's war effort, in the course of which he profitably blackmailed his sister's respectable neighbors by billeting on them three evacuee children so monstrous as to be almost lifelike...