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...left by the defunct Advocate. Although there has been student representation in its pages, the Wake has been chiefly devoted to special issues and the works of established writers. The Wake plans to continue its occasional appearances even if the Advocate does revive, and an issue on English poetess Edith Sitwell is contemplated for next Fall...
Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), courtly ("You are certainly a good tucker," said Edith Bolling Gait Wilson as he patted a lap robe around her), devout (he came to believe that the Secret Service acted directly under divine providence), and looking somewhat like one of the later Antonines, Colonel Starling soon found himself on the White House Detail. For almost 30 years, first as an "SS man" and later as chief of "the Detail," the Colonel suffered the grave responsibility of guarding the lives of five U.S. Presidents from the homicidal reflexes of their fellow citizens. The result...
...Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them...
...that she meant the world to them, in some obscure and sinister way, was always paralyzingly clear. Edith knew well enough, for instance, how intensely displeased they would be if she brought a friend home from school. Since she dreaded their displeasure like death itself, she ran away from the one schoolmate who ever invited herself. She was an intelligent child, but instinctively, the gentle morons of the school were drawn to her. On her 16th birthday the Pierres gave her a party. Only then did it occur to them that they had never allowed her to take dancing lessons...
When the Pierres have done their worst and, dying, leave Edith free, Novelist Johnson brings up her crudest artillery: a doctor with whom the girl is hopelessly in love and a healthy little girl whom she likes. Edith's short final scenes with them are sharp and painful enough to vindicate a good deal of maundering in the body of the book...