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...James Joyce has hitherto been noted chiefly for her comment after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Now Joyce's admirers find themselves deeply indebted to this quiet, unpublicized woman for Stephen Hero, a fragment of the first draft of Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. After it had been rejected by 20 different publishers, Joyce flung the 914-page manuscript into the fire. Mrs. Joyce risked her own skin to retrieve pages 519-902, now owned by the Harvard...
...Fatigue Laboratory. Here a group of doctors and scientists study the effects such diverse weather conditions will have upon the energies of fighting men. Special diets are prepared and new insulated or even electrically heated clothing developed to protect our armies, equipping them in advance against the rigors of hitherto unknown climates...
That tore it. A News Chronicle columnist said that the Economist "accurately expresses the thoughts of millions of ordinary Britons." Two weighty sobersides, the Yorkshire Post (owned by relatives of Anthony Eden's wife) and the London Times turned their thunders on hitherto sacrosanct Franklin Roosevelt, roared that it was time for the U.S. to state its policies and define its world responsibilities. (After the President's message to Congress, the Times applauded.) Editor Crowther, whose first outburst had been marked by well-reasoned rage, came up again with an ill-timed, ill-natured, ill-reasoned diatribe against...
...lovers were moved by the revelation of a hitherto unpublished story about the third Byrd expedition's escape from the Antarctic in 1941. Hemmed in by a closing ice pack, the 26 men at the Palmer Land camp had to risk an emergency flight out in their battered Condor plane. The plane could make only two trips, would be barely able to carry the men. What to do with their well-loved sled dogs...
...head"). She commiserated with Mrs. Hoare, whose daughter had married a Dutchman and borne nothing but girls ("It's something to do with Princess Juliana, I always think," said Mrs. Hoare). She won over the snooty servants and even conquered Oxonian Misogynist Professor Carton, who had hitherto believed that all bluestockings wore raincoats and sang in the Bach choir. After 300 such leisurely pages Author Thirkell ties up the loose ends in a neat bow, marries the right people to the right sort, saves the family mansion and forgives a few of the lower classes. To those...