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...Serenity. Though there are 50 islands in all, only three of the U.S. Virgins* are capable of supporting populations: St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John. They total 132 square miles, barely a tenth of the size of Rhode Island; yet 50,000 residents call them home, and half a million tourists each year find them a lotus-eater's land of sun, sea and serenity...
Slob, Humbug & Jealousy. Volcanic in origin, the islands are a myriad of forms and sizes ranging from a barren cay to agricultural St. Croix, which is 26 miles long and up to six miles wide. St. Thomas offers the bustle of Charlotte Amalie, the islands' capital city, as well as ancient forts and quaint Danish architecture. St. Croix, quieter and less populated, boasts a rain forest and an arid, cactus-studded bluff, wildlife (deer, quail), a profusion of tropical fruit from papaya to pineapples, a golf course, and old plantations with such calypso names as "Slob," "Humbug" and "Jealousy...
...have not been famous for always saying the same thing as the Church of Scotland." Indeed not-and if anything characterizes Sir George's career, it is contrariness. As a captain of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during World War I, he won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre for gallantry-but later became one of Britain's most vociferous pacifists...
France's Honoré Daumier had a way of drawing out the nobility of commonfolk and the commonness of nobility from beneath wrinkles and warts. Dela croix used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...
...where he got to know some of the city's first families, the American major soon became a familiar figure at chateau parties and hunts. After the French Ministry of the Interior awarded him the honorific Croix de Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Civil for promoting Franco-American relations, Desist's local reputation zoomed along with his popularity. He had found a home. When he retired from the Army last year, Desist decided to settle down near Orléans, and took a job with a metallurgical concern...