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By the time his stirring Symphony No. 6 had its premiere in 1948, when he was 76, musical history offered few parallels of such creative longevity. Yet Ralph Vaughan Williams went on to write three more symphonies. King George V gave him the Order of Merit in 1935, but he...
Died. Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, Baron Webb-Johnson, 77, onetime (1941-49) president of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, longtime (1936-53) personal surgeon to the late Queen Mary; in London. When the stricken Rudyard Kipling was rushed to the Middlesex Hospital in early 1936, Webb-Johnson operated...
The unmarked line that divides Moslem Africa from Negro Africa (generally put at 12° north of the equator) splits the Sudan at its midriff, subjects the fledgling country to the tensions of both. In the swampy south and in Kordofan live the eccentric Nuers (who stand for hours, like...
He did not return to Nassau. He married in 1909 and was divorced in 1912. In emulation of his then favorite authors--London, Kipling, and Conrad--he embarked on a gold-prospecting trip to Honduras.
Papa's Fifty Grand. The Atlantic's nervous force was apparent in its first year, when Editor Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson pounded out white-hot antislavery editorials, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier contributed poetry, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had given the Atlantic its name...