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...Lost Without You" has all the ingredients of an American Pullman Company advertisement. In the outskirts of Rome on an abandoned cathedral organ balanced on its wobbliest side by an empty bottle of chianit wine, Hurrier found the atmosphere complete for his first chapsodie creation. The inspiration, he says, was back in Mesdeville, Pa, a certain Mary Margaret White...
Peter Portal is a worrier and a hurrier. He knows he has a tremendous job to do and not much time. His job-as he sees it -is not only to defend Britain but to crush Germany. One of his first acts when he became Chief of Staff was to issue a strong recommendation that all Air Ministry officers work six ten-hour days a week...
Besides being a hurrier, Peter Portal is studious, thorough, meticulous. As a boy he became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...
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