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Died. George Kite, 58, royal chimney sweep, whose firm of Kite & Sons, founded by his grandfather (who swept for Queen Victoria) and continued by his father (who swept for Edward VII), held the royal warrant for sweeping Windsor Castle's 300 chimneys; of pneumonia; in Windsor, England. With a staff of three (including his son, who will continue the family trade), Kite also swept Eton College and the Queen Mother's royal lodge...
Biggest sellers: religious cards, which have climbed from 5% of the market in 1940 to nearly 25% this year; Santa Claus, who was No 3 last year, has tumbled down the chimney to No. 8 spot...
This is a delightful chimney-corner tale of old New England and especially of the hardy, hearty line of Goffes who, for 200 years, have lived beside the moving waters of the family mill at Bedford, N.H., near Manchester. The first Goffe to reach...
...rabbit breeder," who claimed that during her paroxysms she frequently gave birth to rabbits. (For a while nobody in England ate rabbit for fear of encountering a parthenogenetic bunny in the rabbit pie.) It was an undemocratic world, in welfare-state terms, but the duke would bet with the chimney sweep at a cockfight. It was a world that had not yet been promised freedom from fear; yet aggressive personal courage seems to have been the common virtue...
...eyed and warmhearted account of Jewish family life in the 19303. Marjorie is overlong, sometimes graceless, often plodding, but like The Caine, it has a compelling sense of reality, as if the novelist had planted hidden microphones in the house next door and poked a zoomar lens down the chimney...