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...slopes of Dartmouth's golf course at Woodstock, Vermont, and of neighboring Mount Etna were the athletic focus of the weekend, with slalom and cross country races on Friday, downhill and jumping on Saturday...
...western slope of Mount Etna, close by the village of Bronte, lies the Duchy of Bronte-a bit of England on Sicilian soil. Grateful King Ferdinand of Naples and Sicily presented the 17,000-acre estate and its great baroque castle to Horatio, Lord Nelson and made him Duke of Bronte. It was the King's way of thanking Britain's mighty sea hero for saving the Neapolitan monarchy from the French...
...last. When the book was in galleys, an expedition discovered the highest peak of the Drakensberg range in South Africa; when the book was in page proof, another expedition "discovered" the headwaters of the Orinoco (TIME, Dec. 24). After that, the gazetteers began to lose out. Mt. Etna suddenly changed its height by erupting, and a British oceanographer located the deepest spot in the Pacific-both too late to make the final deadline...
...best of all World War II novels of infantry fighting, was New Zealander Guthrie Wilson's first novel, Brave Company, a book that most writers of war novels could read with profit. Briton Alexander Baron showed that he, too, understood his infantrymen in The Wine of Etna, a novel about British troops in Sicily...