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Well-muscled and of medium height, with reddish hair and flashing hazel eyes, Sabatini had the look of an outdoorsman. He married twice (in both cases Englishwomen) and had two chil dren. As the money rolled in, he bought an old mill on a famous salmon stream, the river Wye that coils its way between Wales and England; and there, more English now than the English, he played the country gentleman. "It leaves me cold," he told an interviewer in the early 1920s, "that men should write better novels than mine. But I hate a man who can kill more...
...lied judges at Nuremberg who dispensed minor sentences to Lebensborn person nel, that was all there was to Himmler's program. New light is now being cast on a darker and less well-known phase of Lebensborn: the wholesale kidnaping of hundreds of thousands of foreign chil dren for the purpose of adding to Germany's breeding stock...
...hear Chrissie tell it, she will not have to sacrifice her personal life for too long. She insists that she intends to quit the pro game in three to five years, get married and have two to four chil dren. "Too long a tennis career can ruin a girl and harden her," she says. "Ten nis isn't the most important thing in my life. It's so materialistic. Marriage and family are more important, and so is religion - and love. I'd rather be known for being a girl than for being a tennis player...
Imagine a 1970s Heathcliff sitting in the study of Wuthering Heights, dressed in a country gentleman's tweeds. He has spent the morning keeping tab on his prosperous estate. Now, while his beautiful young wife and chil dren await him for 5 o'clock tea, he neatly taps on an electric typewriter his dark history of humiliation, vengeance and- since he is a Catholic convert-reform...
...recalls that he only wanted a note saying that the couple was practicing birth control - known in the field as a "baby letter" or "Pill letter." But Mrs. Lewicke figured that he wanted even more. She wrote a letter saying that she did not want to have any chil dren, that she would have an abortion if she got pregnant, and that her hus band would have a vasectomy if the loan company so wished. Once the loan was secured, she set about to rid the mortgage business of the common demand for baby letters. Independently, three national women...