Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Puffing his pipe in Chapel Hill, N. C. last week, Sir Richard observed: "All my life I've been so busy writing about things that had to be covered that I haven't had time to write about things that intrigued me most. Now that time has come. I've retired as Nature's editor but I have ambitious plans ahead. I'm just 74. My mother lived to be 90 and my father to 84, and, with good health now, I'm not planning to quit...
...clerical pensioners, widows and orphans. How much an individual pensioner gets, after retiring at around 68, depends upon how well-managed his church's pension affairs are. The Episcopal fund, first in the U. S. to be established and continued upon the sound "actuarial reserve" basis used by life-insurance companies, pays the most- an average $969 a year. In general, pensioning ministers has special actuarial aspects. It has been calculated that their life expectancy at 68 is 11.35 years, whereas the average...
...That Journey (Caxton, $2.50), the first novel of a 36-year-old Ohioan named Emerson Price, is a sample of such realism-a transcript of back-alley life, swimming-hole conversation, and those other phases of their private lives which sons conceal from their parents...
...Greville Memoirs: 1814-1860, edited by Lytton Strachey & Roger Fulford (Macmillan, $80). First published in an expurgated edition in 1874, nine years after hooknosed, cynical-lipped, elegant Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville's death, they seemed to Queen Victoria in "DISGRACEFULLY bad taste." Lord Winchilsea compared them to a life of the Apostles written by Judas Iscariot. Historians and biographers have long since ranked them among the greatest English political diaries. But, because some 80,000 words of the 91 red-covered notebooks were suppressed and because they were written in simple code the general impression remained that Greville...
...British Who's Who George Gordon Coulton cites as his hobby "vegetating." By profession he is a distinguished Cambridge historian, and in the last 15 years the body of his scholarly works on medieval life has sprouted as quietly and as fast as the vegetable he emulates in spare time. Last month was published a great comprehensive cabbage of a book called Medieval Panorama (Macmillan $4), a hybrid of all his previous works. It is a wonderfully nourishing dish, but, like most well-boiled English cabbage, dull on the palate...