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...dark, wet night A.D. 406, Caius Sempronius Felix, civil governor of Roman Britain, sat shivering all alone in a Hertfordshire bog with only a poor man's cloak against the wind, and wondered how in the world he had come to such a pass. The novelized story of Felix's fall, as told by Britain's Alfred Duggan in The Little Emperors, is the story of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain...
Lloyd never consciously draws a figure or a scene, but objects occasionally turn up in his work. Sometimes the image is a dragon's head; other times the effect is of a vine-covered jungle, a gloomy peat bog, or a procession of dancing elves. "I start painting 90% of the time without any idea." says Lloyd. "Eventually it suggests something." He avoids titles: "If I call it a 'Burning Tower,' right away I'm keeping people from using their own imagination. If you like the color forms, that's what pleases me. Then...
...weeks ago, the Saturday Evening Post featured the annals of a 100-mile trip across some Louisiana bog. This being the second such journey in the state's history, the Post was manifestly excited. All of which proves nothing, except that the magazine's editors have never seen Cambridge in winter...
...York's Idlewild Airport, "I shall return." But that was what reporters and newsreel cameramen had told him to say. Actually, Frank had little hope of returning to Ireland and his Dingle Bay romance (TIME, Aug. 18), which now smoldered as sluggishly as peat in a Kerry bog. He explained: "She turned me down because she is too much devoted to her family, her farm and County Kerry. Sometimes." he added thoughtfully, "I wish someone would shoot those cows of hers...
...from Professor Ohga, who has been studying the genus for 30 years and is known in Japan as "Dr. Lotus." But this plant, lovingly tended by the doctor's good friend, 69-year-old Soy Saucemaker Moemon Ihara, had sprouted from a seed found in a nearby peat bog, imbedded in a neolithic canoe. Counting on 100 years to form each foot of the 15 feet of peat that covered the seed, and adding 500 years for the layer of topsoil above the peat, Dr. Lotus calculated that his seed was some 2,000 years...