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...LIFE AND TIMES OF LUCREZIA BORGIA (343 pp.)-Mario Bellonc!-Harcourt, Brace...
...Treasury estimates that a drop of only 5% in U.S. national income would mean a 25% drop in sterling sales to the dollar market. This would put the whole Commonwealth in the red. Convinced that he is faced with that threat, Rab Butler made it his immediate concern to brace the Commonwealth for trouble. Explained a British Treasury man: "The dollar market is the father, and when father turns, we turn, but with a bigger bump on the edges of the bed, where we are, than in the middle, where he is." One method of cushioning the bump...
...according to tradition (and Herodotus), can stay the couriers of the U.S. mail from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Actually, there are often unaccountable delays, as Substitute Letter Carrier Willie Brown, 30, an unemployed Chicago machine operator, spectacularly proved on Christmas Eve. Willie took several drinks to brace himself for his work and then wove his way home with his mailbag still loaded. On arrival he jovially dumped 282 Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after Willie was ar rested, the Jackson Park postal station could...
...Eton and Oxford, he won the D.S.O. in World War I as an officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against Hitler. Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty by Neville Chamberlain, he resigned in protest against the 1938 Munich agreement with the Axis, told his colleagues...
...males, meanwhile, have been going through their Saturday rites of the young bulls, as blithe as you please. It is an unavoidable fact, however, that for every teaser there's an ankle strap, a taped up knee or a shoulder brace. She may be guilty, but he is no one to talk...