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Desiring to advance his reputation, the impulsive Tom took his family to Bath in 1759, then the center of fashionable wealth. Soon his studio became thronged; he raised his prices for half-lengths and had Sterne and Richardson, Quin and Garrick sit for him. Within fifteen years he was in London, prosperous, giving away his sketches and landscapes, dividing the court favor with the American West and that of the city with Reynolds. Among others he painted, sometimes with brushes on sticks six feet long, Sheridan, Burke, Johnson, Franklin, Canning, Lady Montagu, Clive, and Blackstone. Like his more than...
...return to normalcy continued. Wison and his Utopian ideals were relegated to the dog house, and a sound man who would be sure to do the right things went into the White House. Not brilliant, but sound. This was the game where bootlegged liquor and bath-tub gin were given their first official recognition. They were pronounced insufficient...
However, little "personal need" is in evidence at the Ethiopian royal family's seven-acre estate, Fairfield, outside Bath, England. The 14-room Georgian house is jammed with furniture, expensive rugs hurriedly crated out of Ethiopia when the Negus and entourage fled. Behind the high walls the Emperor strides along beside his elderly cousin, Ras Kassa, on their morning walks. His favorite reading is, ironically, "diplomatic history," but most of his serious hours are occupied with the 90,000-word story of his life which he is laboriously turning out in Amharic. The 14-year-old Duke of Harrar...
...Ladrones (the Islands of the Thieves). Magellan christened the friendly but overcurious natives with a blood bath, burned their village. Gonzalo with three others had the bad luck to be ashore when the natives returned to attack the ship, which fled for good. Only one of the four to escape, he lived in a cave until his quick wit and civilized gadgets awed the natives into accepting him as a reborn god. From then on his Eden-like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence...
...really am better. Last night seems very far off. Sometime I will have to think about it--objectively. God, I'm hungry! Rest, sleep--healing, wonderful, the Fountain of Youth, a sulphur bath. (My father takes sulphur baths.) Like a mountain stream: cool, trebling, ceaselessly flowing. What is it? Who knows what it is? It alone has the same value for eternity; it alone is worthwhile. Boy, smell that bacon! I'll be down there in a jiffy...