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...British authors of the century, he was neither an English gentleman nor an American expatriate. His father worked as a hired gardener, later owned a pottery shop which brought him little success; his mother, a onetime housemaid, became a rather incapable housekeeper. His own visage, which, in his journalistic heyday, beamed down on Londoners from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete -indeed, he compared Esthete Proust...
...hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...
Early in 1942, during the heyday of Anglo-Soviet friendship, the British anc Russian governments made a newspaper deal: the Russians would publish 50,000 copies of a weekly Soviet newspaper in Britain, and the British would do th same in Russia. In August, the first copies of Britansky Soyuznik (British Ally) were being distributed in Russia...
...innumerable civic ceremonies graced by Edward VII as Prince of Wales says just about all there is to be said about such aspects of British municipal life, and the family group at Fidget Priory on Christmas 1907 is the last word on the English country house party in its heyday...
...Fascism's heyday, Italy's press minded its political p's & q's, covered celebrities from a respectful distance and avoided sensations like the plague. But at war's end, editors gave violent vent to long-suppressed enterprise and emotions. They soaked their pages in sentimental crime stories, enthusiastically badgered headliners from Winston Churchill to Ingrid Bergman, encouraged reporters and photographers to operate like workers in the gaudiest days of Chicago journalism...