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...Janet Dunbar. George Bernard Shaw's love life was strictly postman's knock as one torrid affair after another has been found to be only on paper. But for 45 years he was a testy but loyal husband, she a malleable wife in an oddly successful marriage...
...G.B.S., A PORTRAIT by Janet Dunbar. 303 pages. Harper...
There is much about the Shaws' relationship that will never be known, though English Authoress Janet Dunbar's sympathetic biography tells a great deal about the little-appreciated Mrs. G.B.S. Perhaps to avoid the temptation to take Shaw too seriously, she does not mention what is surely one of the most intriguing epitaphs ever composed by a bereaved husband. Disapproving of "sympathies, regrets, condolences" after Charlotte's death, G.B.S. told, instead, the story of an Indian prince's favorite wife. "When banqueting with him," wrote G.B.S., "she caught fire and was burned to ashes before...
...segregationists. "In many cases," says A. T. Walden, head of the Negro Voters League, "it's a choice between evils." Often Negro leaders-happy enough to be bargained with at all-fail to get firm promises for the choice they make. Says Southern Regional Council Executive Director Leslie Dunbar: "They just haven't learned to cash in on their power yet. It doesn't make any sense in cities like Atlanta, where Negroes have strategic power, to wait until 1962 till Negro policemen can arrest whites." But at least there are Negroes on Atlanta's police...
Advanced teaching and research in the earth sciences at Harvard are now carried on in three separate buildings: the ROTC building, which houses laboratories for research in geochemistry and economic geology: the Dunbar laboratory, where geophysicists study rocks and materials under great heat and pressure; and the geological museum, which contains a laboratory for chemical analysis of sedimentary rocks, equipment for the study of stream flow and transportation of sediments, and the Berman Memorial Laboratory which has x-ray equipment for studying the composition and structure of minedals...