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...autobiography when he died. But they are the most important chapters of his life, because they show clearly the shaping of the citizen-classicist through childhood and youth (1863-86). The stately prose, and the way of life it describes, may seem to 1945 readers as strange and faraway as Horace-which is just what makes Memories and Opinions worth reading...
Ross IV was a strapping, handsome man with high cheekbones inherited from his Malayan mother (a royal Sulu princess). His chief relaxations from the cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...
...claim to be a national newspaper (it has always feared that quality would be diffused in chain publishing). Encouraged by the success of their experiment, Times editors are speculating right out loud that the Times, by facsimile transmission, could keep its Manhattan integrity while distributing late news in such faraway spots as Boston, Chicago, Kansas City...
...confused and furtive encounter between four men and a girl, which took place about a year ago in faraway New Caledonia, had U.S. Army officials squirming in embarrassment last week...
...enter or leave except on special permits. For further protection, each scientist is usually assigned only part of a problem. Bush's group, not really a team, in general works like a squad of golfers in which each player is handed a club, told to shoot for a faraway green which...