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Updike devotes three hours a day to writing, occupying a cluttered room above a restaurant off the Ipswich green. At home, wearing tattered white sneakers, baggy pants, a turtleneck jersey and a shaggy haircut, he romps with his four children-Elizabeth, Michael, David and Miranda-or plays in a recorder group with Mary. On a winter morning, he might emerge from his 13-room white saltbox house, scoop up an armful of snow and heave ten decimal points against the stop sign on the corner. On a summer morning, he can go out to his small garden and properly cultivate...
...Ipswich...
...RAYBURN-HUGHES Ipswich, England...
...foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately that of his museum-by the trophies brought back from the battlefields of back rooms, auction houses and dealer-wheelings from Ipswich to Istanbul...
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the Most Reverend Father in God, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England, was, next to King Henry VIII, the most powerful man in the realm. But he was also still the poor boy from Ipswich who had constantly to prove himself. It was only natural, therefore, that when he decided to establish a private residence just outside London, it should be the most sumptuous one in the land. In 1514, he picked a site a few miles down the Thames from London. There stood a small manor belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John...