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...BYRON IN ITALY - Peter Quennell -Viking...
...morning in 1816 an Englishman with a godlike face and a deformed foot registered at a Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron...
...sort of art gallery. Baedeker became the bible of escape. Verne's own passion for geography was romantic; his love of the sea and the undersea, which his contemporaries shared, is generally recognized today as a death wish (see cut); his greatest creation, Captain Nemo, is simply Lord Byron in a diving suit...
...Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian; Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience; The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...Handsome Vic Ghezzi, 29, of Deal, N.J., who had never won anything more important than the Los Angeles Open (six years ago): the Professional Golfers' Association championship tournament, closed-shop meeting of U.S. pros; defeating Texan Byron Nelson, defending champion, on the second extra hole of the 36-hole final; after the lead had changed four times and the match was squared four times; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level, at Denver. In nine previous P.G.A. championships, Ghezzi had never reached the quarterfinals...