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Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a gallant little mongoose, loved everything but snakes. His great enemies were the cobra family. Rikki was contemptuously friendly with Chuchundra, a muskrat, and on fair terms with Chua, a regular rat. But except in Kipling's enchanted garden, rats are the mongoose...
The Heavy Pencil. But in this running rearguard action the editor gathered about him a corps of rising young writers, many of whom came to be known as "Henley's Young Men." Rudyard Kipling's earliest, most virile poems, Barrack Room Ballads, were printed first by Henley-as...
This galaxy of talent submitted meekly to Henley's dictatorial editing. Editor Henley ruthlessly rewrote all his contributors-poets, essayists, novelists, the connoisseur of Continental cooking-leaving the well-known "trail of Henley" all over the magazine. "I was comforted," said young Yeats, after Henley had laid a heavy...
Rudyard Kipling); of a heart attack; in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire. In general agreement with Queen Mary on both morals and hats, she kept a firm, wifely hand in her husband's career (gossip credited her with much influence in forcing the abdication of Edward VIII).
Since 1941, the U-boat fleet had sunk no less than 440 U.S. ships, of 2,740,000 gross tons; mines, surface ships, aircraft and miscellaneous enemy action boosted the toll to 538 ships (3,310,000 gross tons or almost 5,000,000 deadweight tons). U.S. merchant seamen killed...