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Dare Call It Treason, by Richard M. Watt. The mutiny of almost 100 French divisions during the bloodiest fighting of World War I was long hushed up, but now it has been skillfully told by a salesman turned history buff...
Ainsworth rose to chief editorial writer, but after a 1959 heart attack he began "On the Move." The column is more than just folksy, for Ainsworth is a local-history buff who garnishes his prose with obscure tidbits of information and relishes exotic place names. Driving through Malibu, he can look past the cantilevered homes of the movie stars to a time when "Cabrillo in his voyage of exploration in 1542 saw the Chumash Indians in their settlement of 'Maliwu...
...Abdul Rahman cheerfully, and six years as Malaya's Prime Minister have not altered his funloving ways. The Tunku plays golf every morning (handicap: 24), checks the racing calendar before making advance political engagements, always takes a nap in the afternoon. An avid soccer fan and sports-car buff, he is chronically late for appointments, explains: "Being punctual always wears...
...Johnson scholars have now had the bright idea of compiling a selection of the great work. They, too, have done it very well. It will amuse the word buff and inform those who might be interested in what the language was like before it was run over by two centuries of social change and technological revolution...
...going to write a primer for my four-year-old, who writes phonetically (fonetik-ly). It's going to be called At the Barnyard and have sentences like "You should buff the rough wood on the plough now," and "After the calf laughs the fey jay neighs...