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...husky corn-fed Texan named Anderson Baten retired to his Dallas cottage, opened the first volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and began reading about "AABENRAA, a town of Denmark." Two years later, without having skipped a word between, he came to "ZYGOTE, the biological term for the fertilized egg," closed the last volume, went prayerfully to bed. Next morning he arose at 6 a. m., took a five-mile walk with his wife. After breakfast he sat down at his desk in the centre of a horseshoe of book-stacked tables. When Anderson Baten left his study sometime between...
...know whether he's coming or going." His youthful ambition was to be a champion weightlifter. When he was 23 he performed the terrific feat of raising a 250-lb. dumbbell above his head. Satisfied with that, he turned to literature. Before he started reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover for background he had plowed his way through 10,000 other volumes, compiled an anthology called The Philosophy of Life...
...different in kind from other able men; only more brilliant and ruthless than they, and with a preference for what H. G. Wells has styled the cloacal. In that field he is a past-master." Aldous Huxley "is still baffled by the number of entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . He has a greater capacity for wisdom than any encyclopaedia-stuffed man of this era; and may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come...
...TIME. Sept. 10). Last week His Royal Highness ordered in London a superb Kashmir sapphire, supported by two oblong diamonds in a platinum setting. ¶ When Scottish journalists dryly observed that Prince George is in fact a commoner, the usual flurry ensued as Englishmen turned to their Encyclopedia Britannica and once more were titillated by this technicality: "The children of the Sovereign, other than his eldest son, though by courtesy 'princes' and 'princesses,' need a royal warrant to raise them de jure above the common herd; and even then, though they be dubbed 'Royal Highness' in their cradles, they remain...
...island, talked to the descendants of the mutineers, prowled the storied spots to his heart's content. Though it was near hurricane season he looked forward to as peaceful a passage home, with plenty of leisure to read the MED-to-MUM volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica he had brought with him to while away the time. But about 3 a. m. one night of dirty weather they struck the reef of Timoe. Luckily the schooner wedged herself on the coral; they were able to launch a boat, get everyone safely ashore. Next day when the sea went down...