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...more recent generations, Author Aronson computes, the Bonapartes have married their way into just about every royal family in Europe. The present Bonaparte pretender, Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, is a chap in his late 50s who lives in Paris with his wife and four children on an inherited income and rarely speaks to the Count of Paris, pretender to the Bourbon throne. The American branch of the family produced several distinguished men (including Charles Patterson Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt). But the line petered out with Jerome-Napoleon Patterson Bonaparte in 1943. The great-grandnephew of Napoleon...
...chaise longue, powered by a small gasoline engine and equipped with polystyrene foam pontoons, will carry a chap out to sea in semisubmerged comfort. Basic cost: $179.50 at Abercrombie & Fitch...
...until last year Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. A leading Shakespearian scholar, he is teaching two courses on the playwright in the Summer School. During the regular academic year, he was at N.Y.U. In the fall he will "relieve a chap at Trinity, Dublin, who wants to come over here for a year." This is Professor Alexander's first trip to America. "It's a big show," he said, and he used the term as of a musical comedy on Broadway...
Public Slugging. Of the two, Mayer is both the more messianic and the more corrosive. A wisecracking, easygoing chap, he was a protege of the University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, taught in Mortimer Adler's Great Books program before launching a career as a freelance writer and fulltime polemicist. He has been flailing away at his chosen targets-war, racial prejudice, big government-for something close to a quarter of a century. The secret of the art, he understands, is to avoid the complicating thought and the qualifying phrase; indeed, few writers have his knack...
Only one person has really benefitted from all this mess--and that is the new Hamlet. With the departure of Rawlins, it was at last decided to promote his understudy into the part. This is a chap by the name of Tom Sawyer. He was an obscure young actor of whom little seems to have been ferreted out, for he has refused to allow himself to be photographed, biographed, or interviewed. But he is obscure no more...