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Thirty years ago a stooped man with hollow cheeks and a potbelly came out from behind the bookstacks, where he had spent most of his life, and kidnaped a state. Never before or after did he fire a gun or throw a bomb or raise his slim-fingered hands to strike a blow. In his name, nevertheless, more men have been slaughtered than in Attila's. His name was Lenin...
...Tarrytown, N.Y., the Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...
Burnt Child. In Houston, George M. Friddle declared in a hollow voice, "Never again," as he applied for his fifth divorce from the same wife...
...immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West in exchange for Arab oil and air rights are the very life blood of the dynasties masking as the Arab League. Further, any Arab withdrawal from the UN would leave the Egyptian complaint against Great Britain, now pending, hanging in outer...
American Novels (Fri. 11:30 p.m., NBC). Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow...