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George Tucker, retired Presiding Bishop, and the Rt. Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker, retired Bishop of Ohio; the Rt. Rev. Richard Bland Mitchell, Bishop of Arkansas...
...Perchance Mr. [Beverley] Baxter might benefit from a bicycle trip through the good, solid American countryside. There he might find some who would be in a homey, talkative mood, thus imparting to him yet another side of U.S. life ... If it's conversation he wants, any housewife over here could bring him down to earth in nothing flat. He'd find that a good portion of us are college graduates, as are our husbands. We're usually a family of four with the usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets...
...sign," reported Conservative M. P. Beverley Baxter in Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, "when American taxi drivers do not engage a stranger in conversation. This time the canaries did not sing . . . When I asked a friend for an explanation, he answered that America is haunted by two spectres-war and peace . . . Incidentally, a New Yorker who has lived on the fringe of world affairs . . . suggested to me that Japan might be invited to take over Korea . . . 'Japanese armament shares have had a sharp rise,' he said suavely. I make no comment on his statement, but merely...
Today, at 52, Beverley is soberer, but no whit less naive, than when he wrote Twenty-Five. Most of All I Could Never Be is far too simple and sorry to stir up any ruckuses; the rest of it is first-rate gossip. The only ax it has to grind is Beverley himself...
Fortunately. News of England (1938), Beverley's proletarian polemic, was his last causal fling. While other Britons dug trenches in the parks and queued for gas masks, he turned to creating something that would "defend . . . small and beautiful things against ... the mass ugliness and beastliness of the herd." His labors resulted in a domed, floodlit hothouse, planned to resemble "a gigantic reproduction of one of Queen Mary's hats...