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...lifetime George V's character lay hidden behind a formidable beard and the equally protective barrier of royal protocol. In his new biography, Harold Nicolson looks behind beard and protocol to reveal a sovereign who took an active part in the making of history and a man who worked at the job of being King with all the conscientiousness his grandmama could have wished. Nicolson's biography is an authorized one, and his charter has restricted him to the official side of the King's life. But his success in extracting pure gold from the dull metal...
...Urgency. Vinoba, as he is known to millions, was a trusted and faithful disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi. He even looks somewhat like Gandhi, except for a grey beard and frowsy dark hair. He has the same emaciated body, wears the same sort of bifocal glasses, speaks in the same calm, soft voice, with kindly humor. One of the most learned men in India, he has studied Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kanarese, Malayalam and English, and this array of languages serves him well on his travels through polyglot India. It is not for his learning...
...matter if I just paint stripes or circles.' " But he found himself copying a crystal candlestick and a blue porcelain vase which he saw in his studio. "Much to my surprise," he says, "something decent actually turned up." Emanuel grew a husky white beard to complete his disguise, and painted away delightedly...
After war's end, Emanuel, still safe & sound, shaved off his beard and went back to the Corriere della Sera, later became its editor. But he went on painting-on Sundays. After he retired as editor last year, he took up art full time. Working in a small study, he put whatever impressed him on canvas-as rapidly as possible to catch his first feeling for the subject. After two hours, he would put the picture away. "In a few days," he says, "if I felt the same emotion I had while I was painting, then I would know...
...higher or farther. Switch Hitter Mantle hit the homer righthanded; but just eight days before, hitting lefthanded, in an exhibition game at Pittsburgh, he had become the third man ever to pole one out of the park over the right-field stands. (The others: Ruth and Ted Beard.) Looking back over his 42 years in baseball, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel said: "Mantle is probably the most powerful switch hitter the game has ever known...