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...heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless by accident. He never calls on anyone, is seldom seen outside of his gate...
Calmest man in the kingdom was the new ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
...Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight, more than...
...Calvin Coolidge, Dr. Cole will succeed President Stanley King, 62 (a fraternity brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon), who is retiring July 1, soon after Amherst's 125th birthday party. As an old grad returning home, Charles Cole well knows the history of Amherst's elm-grown, hilltop campus, which had its start when a group of ardent Puritans from Williams College struck out for themselves, determined to "educate indigent young men of hopeful piety...
...China, where he began a four-year stint in 1938, he won friends and influenced people for Britain at a time when his country's stock was painfully low. His hilltop home overlooking Chungking was a haven for Chinese politicians and intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant conversation - in Chinese, which the Ambassador found "very straightforward" to learn "because it has no grammar at all." In Russia he served for three wearing, critical years. He first met Stalin accidentally in a Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality...