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George Meredith was the Evelyn Waugh of the Victorians. He was wondrously clever, with a wit that snapped and crackled and never faltered through more than 20 novels. "His pages so teem with fine sayings and magniloquent epigrams, gorgeous images, and fantastic locutions," said Critic W. E. Henley, that "the mind would welcome a little dullness as a glad relief." Had he had the virtue of simplicity, in addition to his other talents, he might have been to English fiction what Shakespeare is to its poetry and drama...
California's Governor Earl Warren, 57, father of six, got an election-year posy. He was named one of the "most virile men in America" by an organization calling itself the International Artists Committee. Among the other he-men honored: Cinemactors Clark Gable, 47, and Victor ("Gorgeous Hunk of Man") Mature. Gushed the committee' s chairman: "They're positively loaded with hormones...
...Gorgeous George" looked his best in a grey double-breasted suit. At his side stood his handsome, smartly tailored wife Fiorenza (TIME, June 7), who said over & over: "I leave the issues to George." George took good care of the issues. His own man, Frederick G. Gardiner (another Toronto lawyer), was running the platform committee...
Georges ("Gorgeous Georges") Carpentier, a promising French heavyweight until he tried to mix it with Jack Dempsey in 1921, came back for a visit to the U.S. with some thoughts on middle age (he is 54): "I don't feel old. I know I'm getting old, but I don't feel it. I don't want to see it even. I don't look in the mirror any more." He had found that "life is very interesting if you make mistakes. That gives you an ambition in life to correct mistakes, to make money...
...Congonhas do Campo at that time lived the mulatto son of a Portuguese carpenter. Men called him Aleijadinho* (Little Cripple), and knew that he had a mysterious disease which had left him hideous, broken and bent. But disease could not cripple Aleijadinho's genius for building great and gorgeous baroque churches and filling them with sculptured figures of beauty and power unparalleled in Brazil before or since...