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...monarch, notes Author Maurois, "owed her five million gold francs" (about three million modern dollars). In her desk, "tied with the thin silk ribbon known as a 'favour,' " Miss Howard cherished the dear evidence-a huge collection of signed receipts, along with impassioned love letters, proposals for "tightening such dear links" (marriage?), promises to "raise her to the position she deserved" (empress...
...most everywhere.' " When he was losing his eyesight he devoted hours to reading Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but lost patience after two pages of a book about D. H. Lawrence's sex-ridden Lady Chatterley's Loner. The critique was, he thought, a piece of propaganda "in favour of something which, outside of D.H.L.'s own country at any rate, makes all the propaganda for itself...
Joel Landau must do well in the hurdles and if he can upset Roberson in the lows, the meet could turn in the Crimson's favour. Sandy Dodge in the dashes is all that stands between the Cornell power and oblivion, for Landau will pass up the 100 to concentrate on the hurdles...
Mixed Fiction FOR EVERY FAVOUR, by Ruby Ferguson (320 pp.; Little, Brown; $3.95), is a report on that lost time when the grapes were always plump in the hothouse and no butler ever stole a spoon. Instead of telling the gloom of aristocrats obliged to do without servants, English Novelist Ruby Ferguson, 57, resourcefully chronicles the even gloomier situation of servants who have run out of aristocrats. Her story about the decline, fall and resurrection of Edward Shrewsbury, the perfect butler, is calculated to make envious many a lady novelist who has never thought of using butlers for any purpose...
Neither side has so far presented fully persuasive arguments, but Stevenson's statements indicate that he is more ready to plan creatively to end the present confusion on the draft. They also indicate that Stevenson does not favour the unfortunate commitment to "massive retaliation." If the Democratic nominee were to debate the issue fully, he could avoid the current charges of demogoguery and in addition do the country a service...