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...Malcolm Endicott Peabody. "But few have read it. Few of those have understood it." What fascinated the public, though, was far less the book's content than the striking contrast it revealed between the public image of the icy, imperturbable diplomat and the passionate mysticism of the secret diarist...
...arts. A contemporary English diarist, John Evelyn, noted that Bernini once "gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theater...
...TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page manuscript seemed destined to remain forever separate from the other six books of the Meta morphoses, bequeathed by Diarist Samuel Pepys in 1703 to Cambridge's Magdalene College...
...virtually perfect condition, were the 272 pages of what is believed to be the first book with English illustrations ever prepared for printing. They formed the first nine books of a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 10 through 15, unillustrated, were given to Cambridge University by Diarist Samuel Pepys 278 years ago. Put together by William Caxton, the 15th century Englishman who first set English in movable type, the first half of the Ovid manuscript brought a record auction price of $252,000 at Sotheby's last week from Lew Feldman, a rare-book dealer...
...jungles of Laos and Cambodia. Captured diaries of infiltrators tell harrowing tales of the journey. Marchers carry 70-lb. packs up 40° slopes, cope with insects, snakes, mud, hunger, disease and even, occasionally, the attacks of wild animals. "Five of the men have died of malaria," observed one diarist. "Food situation getting critical," noted another, "will have to cut ration below 500 grams. The word tonight is that there is no rice stored at the next two stations." And once Giap's men arrive, he must keep them supplied by the same tortuous, 800-mile route. Every pair...