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The Palace makes a bright pendant on any hotel chain. Opened in 1875 by Mrs. Johnston's grandfather, U.S. Senator William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then...
As for the greatest lines in English poetry, Kipling identified them:
-Rudyard Kipling
Lounging in an easy chair in the library of his Surrey estate, Britain's fireball sultan of the press, Lord Beaverbrook, who recently summed up his homilies of success in a book called Don't Trust to Luck, trotted out some more reminiscences on BBC's TV...
TIME was when the nations of Europe, overflowing with vitality, sent men, money and ideas cascading to the ends of the earth. The flags of their empires were planted in every continent by warriors like Cortes and Clive, sailors like Columbus and Cook, explorers like Champlain and De Soto, by...