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...There have been other financial drains, the Governor said. When he and his wife Nancy moved out of the Governor's mansion in 1967 because they thought it was a fire trap, they rented a house for $15,000 a year. "The law says the state has to furnish the Governor a place to live," Reagan told Frost. "But I felt a little self-conscious about having moved out voluntarily, so we paid the rent." Not any more-since July 1, 1970, the state of California has paid...
...BOOKS DO FURNISH A ROOM by Anthony Powell. 241 pages. Little, Brown...
...occasion was the publication of Books Do Furnish a Room, the tenth in the master's projected twelve-volume series, A Dance to the Music of Time. After the induction of new members, the chairman noted that our rolls were moderate in England and small in America, but growing. A motion was defeated to lower the entrance requirement from a close reading of six volumes in the series to a close reading of three. During the discussion it was pointed out that the series so far had covered a span of more than three decades of English life...
...With Books Do Furnish a Room. Powell's rornan fleuve moves on from its wartime trilogy to chronicle the fitful resurgence of normal life in drab postwar England. Old members will know what to expect and will not be disappointed. Once again the narrator is Nick Jenkins, out of the army and back in London as literary editor of a new little magazine. Once again the plot proceeds not so much by incidents as coincidence. In a series of set pieces -a funeral, a literary cocktail party -characters bob up from the past, intermingle, realign themselves and caper...
...people who get ahead in the world, is now M.P. His newly acquired wife is the fabled Pamela Flitton, as bitchy and beautiful as she is promiscuous. Widmerpool is backing Nick's magazine and its editor, a furtive, bibulous literary hack known in the trade as Books-Do-Furnish-a-Room Bagshaw. Pamela is backing a gifted, eccentric writer in the magazine's stable, X. Trapnel, to the extent that she leaves Widmerpool and moves in with him. Ultimately she destroys him and returns to Widmerpool, while the intrigues surrounding the liaison cost Bagshaw...