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...Charles Higham's Kate (Norton; $7.95) displays a similar flaccidity. "Hepburn stood back nobly," begins the chronicle, "not asking to see the book in manuscript or proof . . . not even calling me to see how I was progressing." Hepburn's celebrated diffidence was never more wisely employed. Higham's hushed approach, his claim that "she is the greatest actress of our time . . . because her honesty demands she must suffer nakedly in front of our eyes" is incense, not biography...
Academic Giggles. At Oxford University Truman donned a scarlet, orange and grey gown, plumped a round velvet academic cap over his grey hair, stood before 1,200 in Christopher Wren's 17th century Sheldonian Theatre to receive his degree. Public Orator T. F. Higham, in stately Latin (Truman was furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota...
...harder job is to satisfy Walter's mother of his absolute trustworthiness and interest in Walter. It isn't so bad as long as they are stranded in Switzerland, but when they move to southern France, within a few miles of Francis' beloved Lorna Higham, it becomes unpleasant, virtually impossible. Ellery's consequent frustrations, quarrels, subtle humiliations could hardly be more cruelly told...
...Miami Beach, Sir Charles Higham, Director of British Propaganda during the War, took it on himself to air his opinion of Franklin Roosevelt. His opinion: The President of the United States is "as bold, as ambitious, as demagogic and, had he the chance, would be as dictatorial as Hitler or Mussolini...
...Charles Higham (Britain's Bruce Barton): "Perhaps I am too optimistic about Britain, but I don't despair. France and the United States have most of the gold in the world divided between them. What we have left is our character and our credit. Now our credit is imperiled...