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...listening to local folklore in his travels through Greece. Then he became fascinated by references to the Chalcidice peninsula in Strabo's Geography. He was primarily interested in the allusions to weapons, jewelry and coins made in the Chalcidice-and guessed that this indicated a sizable local lode of metal. He reasoned that much of the metal would still be in the earth, since the early Greeks had primitive mining machinery and thus could dig only shallow mines. Xenarios finally homed in on a region known as Skouries (meaning "deposits of rust") which had the typical copper field...
Allen Drury did two things when he began to make his fortune with Advise and Consent, a fascinating first novel about a fight in the U.S. Senate to reject the President's nominee for Secretary of State. First, he quit the New York Times. Second, knowing a mother lode when he struck one, he began a sequel to the book that has sold 2,350,000 copies in hard covers and paperbacks and been made into a play and a movie. In bulk, A Shade of Difference nearly matches Advise and Consent: 603 pp. v. 616. But in pace...
...pair of Veterans Administration psychologists, Drs. Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow, after they discovered that the Los Angeles county coroner's office had been filing suicide notes for years and had amassed more than 700 of them. By mining and refining this lode of research...
...Picture Arts and Sciences to opt out of the competition. His announced reason: disgust with the lobbying and self-promotion increasingly expected of Oscar seek ers. Said Scott: "I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought to Manhattan by Mary Welsh Hemingway, whose pursuit of the unpublished works of her late husband Ernest took her from a Havana bank vault to the back room at Sloppy Joe's saloon in Key West. She collected a possible four novels, dozens...
...SANDBURG, by Harry Golden (287 pp.; World; $5). Harry (Only in America) Golden has put together an undefinitive biography of his old friend the poet out of snips and snatches from Sandburg's autobiography, newspaper columns, poetry and memorabilia. But there are some nuggets in this worked-over lode. Item: Sandburg was briefly considered by important Republicans as a dark-horse Republican candidate for the presidency in 1940 (Willkie was nominated, and the relieved Sandburg stumped the country for Roosevelt). Item: Poet-Patriarchs Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are barely on speaking terms. Item : one of Sandburg...