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When Naturalist-Author Hal Borland died in 1978, he left a shelf of more than 30 books, as well as thousands of "outdoor editorials" written over a period of 36 years for the Sunday New York Times. He also left the text of a volume intended as a celebration of America's trees. A Countryman's Woods (Knopf; 184 pages; $25) was completed by Borland's friend and sometime collaborator Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine, who also took the handsome color photographs that illustrate it. Borland's relaxed, graceful prose mixes botanical information (the intricate...
...simple war," says Scruggs wearily. "Then we could put up a heroic statue of a couple of Marines and leave it at that." (Indeed, next year, to satisfy the critics, a flag and statue of three Viet Nam foot soldiers will be implanted nearby.) Virginia Veteran Jim Borland saw the memorial on Veterans Day and found it "full of ambivalence," like the country's attitude toward...
When my laughter subsided after reading your story on doctors' jargon [Jan. 12], I found I had experienced "a series of spasmodic and partly involuntary expirations, with inarticulate vocalization, normally indicative of merriment," as defined in Borland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary...
Further assurance comes from Steiner, who said last week that independent appraisals from two outside assessors will keep the sale-prices honest. These appraisals were made separately by Dwight Andrews of Ellis and Andrews and Peter Baldwin of Dudley and Borland...
Angry Mayor. The full-time editorial staff of 35 is large for a paper of its circulation, and unusually literate. A number of the writers have published books and two-Columnist Hal Borland and Cultural Editor Milton Bass-have also done screenplays...