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...town each July 4 with blasts from his is-inch-long toy cannon, set off a homemade bomb in the stone quarry, practiced his rifle marksmanship (he later became one of the Army's best) in the attic on rainy days with a .22. One winter, while crust riding downhill on his sled, he lost control, rammed head first into a stone wall. Unshaken, he would have gone calmly back up for another slide had not friends persuaded him to go to the doctor-who took six stitches to close the gap. Thenceforth...
Herter stepped into politics when the longtime representative from Boston's upper-crust Fifth Ward decided to retire from the state legislature. He knew and liked Herter, and so did the ward's Republican leader, who had roomed with Chris at Harvard. Talked into running, Herter won. Aristocratic, sometimes aloof Christian Herter, a fellow politician once said, "never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street"-but he has never lost an election...
...most widely read writers in the world-and one of the richest. He makes no bones about money and the pleasures it buys: a villa on the Riviera, good cigars, expensive paintings, luxurious travel. As he once put it: "I had no intention of living on a crust in a garret if I could help it. I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five." Maugham's senses are well satisfied, and in this latest last book he allows himself that ultimate luxury: the writing...
...ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem to be suspended in mid-Atlantic, uncertain whether to nationalize...
...towering egotist. As an apprentice in the British merchant navy, he was termed "the most pigheaded, obstinate boy I have ever come across" by his first skipper. Born a middle-class Irishman, he burned to force his way to the top of Britain's upper crust-and chose the polar route for the expedition...