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In days gone by, when the sun never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man's burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an old India hand has...
Ever since Romulus and Remus, folklore full of children reared by wild animals has been passed on and diligently reported. In the manner of Kipling's fictional "wolf-suckled, snake-taught, elephant-advised" Mowgli, Ireland has produced a sheep boy, Africa a baboon boy who devoured 89 prickly pears...
Died. Walter Edwin ("The Professor") Peck, 62, onetime authority on English poets, turned leading intellectual of Manhattan's Bowery; of a heart attack; after he was found in a snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at...
Until recently few connoisseurs paid much attention to Kalighat painting (though Rudyard Kipling's father did buy 15 examples, which the son later presented without comment to the Victoria & Albert Museum). Fifty years ago anyone with half an eye, a few dollars and an old portfolio might have amassed...
¶ On Studio One, sponsor Westinghouse has brilliantly faced up to some difficult situations. One script was turned down at the last minute when a sure-eyed adman found that its plot revolved about a leaky refrigerator. And, to protect the tender sensibilities of Westinghouse's lamp department, Studio...