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...year-old Simpson goes sauntering, it is likely to turn into a bracing hike. He has done 37 miles at a stretch, would like to try a Kennedy 50. He is 5 ft. 7½ in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., likes a martini before dinner and a nightcap of bourbon and water. He comes to his post with some knowledge of American girls, since in 1938 he married one, Mary McEldowney, onetime associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Simpsons have two married daughters just into their 20s and a son, Rupert, 11. Simpson believes adamantly...
...with enough gauges and gadgets to make it look like Faith 7). In the evening, he was off again to address R.O.T.C. students at nearby Arizona State University, gave them a talk about freedom and the necessity of manned aircraft in the space age, went home again to sip bourbon and water and fiddle with his ham rig. Soon he was talking up his pet Senate bills to two hams in the Pacific's Marshall Islands. When a house guest went off to bed at 2 a.m., Barry and his son Mike, 23, were fiddling with a new kind...
Besides being an indefatigable woman chaser who didn't care what he mixed with his Bourbon blood, France's Louis XIV was a fatherly figure who did his best to treat his bastards as if they were true princes. Decked out with noble titles, married off to peers of the realm, the royal by-blows took their places in court and kingdom beside their legitimate brothers. Thus raised high by the king's power alone, the king's shadow family was a perfect gauge of his fortunes...
Convulsive Barking. Louis Auguste de Bourbon, first (and last) Due du Maine, was a man all but killed by royal kindness. The son of Madame de Montespan, Louis' most beautiful mistress, he became protégé of Madame de Maintenon, Louis' most enduring love. Thoughtful, diffident, unworldly, the Due had no gift for the great stage onto which fate and father thrust...
...novel notions-for example, that the pains of purgatory might last only ten years. Yet by 1594, they had taught some 220,000 students, including the future St. Francis de Sales. The Jesuits welcomed anyone who could hurdle the entrance exams. They lured rich and poor, Jansenists and Protestants, Bourbon princes, colonial Americans, Turks and even Chinese. The best students were often uncut diamonds like Jean Baptiste Poquelin, son of a long line of upholsterers. The Jesuits put him on a diet of Terence, Lucretius, and French drama. Wielding a pen sharper than a needle, he became the playwright Moli...