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...sextant are instruments to be treated with care and reverence. He can read the tides and the weather, and he knows the movements of the navigator's stars. His library is charts and pilot manuals. His bible is the American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch, a one-volume encyclopedia of seagoing wisdom that was first published in 1802 and remains a remarkably complete collection of everything a seaman needs to know...
...Bowles at 35. In 1943, as a vice president of the University of Chicago, he acquired the faltering Encyclopaedia Britannica from Sears, Roebuck and put up $100,000 of his own money as working capital to allay fears of the school's worried trustees. Under his stewardship, the encyclopedia's sales zoomed during the next two decades from $3,000,000 to $125 million, netting the university $25 million in royalties. Benton was a staunch liberal and a bitter foe of Joe McCarthy in his Senate days (1949-53). An early UNESCO supporter, he ultimately served the organization...
...Melbourne suburb of Kew. His father, Harry Frederick Ernest Whitlam, was a lawyer who eventually attained the high civil service post of Commonwealth Crown Solicitor and also became Australian representative on the U.N. Human Rights Commission. As a boy, Gough liked to sit at dinner with the family encyclopedia at his back, handy for reference in arguments. Gough left one school after a teacher complained of his impudence, a charge that was to be echoed throughout his life. In Canberra Grammar, he was classed as industrious but not brilliant, good in English and Latin, terrible in math and, again, impudent...
...poised on a living-room shelf, a duffel bag of uniforms at the top of the stairs, a portrait by his wife hung in their bedroom. There are less direct reminders too: a grease-splattered map of Viet Nam on a kitchen wall; a dog-eared volume of an encyclopedia spread open on a table-the subject is Viet...
ALEXIS LICHINE, author of Wines of France, Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits and owner of the Château Prieure-Lichine vineyard in Bordeaux...