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...most up-to-date mechanical secretary. All it did was answer the phone and deliver a recording of Mrs. Emery's voice. "This is the voice of Audubon," the record said last Saturday. "There is a Barrow's Golden eye at Clucester near the Fisherman's statue, a Lark Sparrow and a Black-Headed Grosbeak in Ipswich. A Snow Goose has been seen at Plum Island, and the Canada Jay is still at Orange..." So far so good. But then the machine went on: "Please leave your message after the double signal," and follows this with a beautiful thirty second...
...Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed of by Cecil Rhodes. He made it in a year after hardships that make climbing Everest seem like a lark. Driving off a party of cannibals, Grogan captured two of the women and a couple of children, all emaciated. Complained one of the ladies: "Things are very hard with us ... in the last week, our men have only been able to catch two people...
...Plantagenets really lived it up. They dined on roast lark, ginger fritters and porcupine seethed in almond milk, and their halls were strewed with cartloads of rose petals. The Plantagenets' brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame...
...succumb to the blandishments of the Communists and go off to school in Red China. The Communists offer them everything from free books to free clothes. "And so," says Lin, "parents never see their children again. It is very sad." Last year, under the leadership of Rubber Tycoon Tan Lark-sye and Lien Ying-chow, managing director of Singapore's Overseas Union Bank, the city's merchants and businessmen began raising money for a new university, decided on Lin Yutang as chancellor because of his international prestige. By last week, Nanyang University had 20 million Singapore dollars (about...
...except for a brief surrealistic lark when Betsy runs off to New York with her captive sisters, the novel dredges a long, dry stream-bed of consciousness...