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BALD I ACCEPT AND WOULD NOT BOGGLE SERIOUSLY AT BALDISH BUT BALDING CALLS FOR REBUKE. I KNOW THAT TIME IS PROUD-PERHAPS RIGHTLY-OF ITS OWN VOCABULARY BUT MY LATE AND DEAR FRIEND WILLIAM BOLITHO WHOSE MASTERY OF STYLE NOT EVEN TIME CAN QUESTION ALWAYS WARNED ME AGAINST PRESENT PARTICIPLES SAVE WHERE NECESSARY BECAUSE THEY WERE HE SAID EVIDENCE OF LAX OR LAZY PROSE...
...with lucky breaks. As darkness gathers again, interest in Fortune revives. This week, in The Tide of Fortune, Biographer Stefan Zweig (Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Erasmus of Rotterdam, etc.) examines twelve varied instances of unpredictable turns of chance. The book is reminiscent of the late William Bolitho's grandly oblique sketches of adventurers, Twelve Against the Gods. Typical of Zweig's jack pots, lucky & unlucky...
Then Edward, his friend and original benefactor, came to the Throne. Promptly swank Mayfair's slick-papered smartchart bi-weekly Leisure bought and ran in serial installments excerpts from his forthcoming biography, "The New King . . . Exclusive . . . Intimate Life Study ... by Hector Bolitho." The series ran for four months. Last week just about the biggest biographic surprise Mayfair has had came when a few people bought what they casually supposed was only the binding up in book form of the Leisure sketches, a friendly series of bi-weekly pieces about Edward VIII seemingly penned in deepest, sincerest admiration...
...suddenly appears in Mr. Bolitho's new book that King Edward "was harassed, unreasonable and vain," whereas in Leisure of last spring he was remarkable for "the gentleness of his judgments" and "his standards were as rigid as those of his father" although Biographer Bolitho of course knew then about Mrs. Simpson...
...last week's Bolitho book, the New Zealand friend writes that as long as ten years ago Edward of Wales was estranged from King George and Queen Mary. "His son's friendship with Mrs. Simpson was a perpetual grief to him [George...