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Oppenheimer and his wife Bridget live in a style befitting their wealth. Home is a colonial mansion surrounded by formal gardens in a northern suburb of Johannesburg. Decorations include paintings by Chagall, Goya, Renoir and Picasso, and bookshelves are lined with first editions of Lord Byron and other poets. Oppenheimer owns a stud farm where he raises prize race horses, and a 900-acre game preserve in eastern Transvaal...
...machines to produce items like clocks and locks. The trade flourished most dramatically in America. In the early 1800s, Eli Whitney helped to pioneer mass production, using standardized, interchangeable parts at his Connecticut musket factory. By the early 1900s, the toolmaker's skills enabled machines to engrave the Lord's Prayer on a sliver of metal less than one-hundredth of an inch wide...
Colegate handles her large cast of guests, servants and outsiders so that everyone seems singular, from the lord of the manor to the local poacher. When these sharply etched characters gather in the field for a hunt, they seem to inhabit a fine old photograph, illuminated from behind by an approaching flame...
...Lord God Made Them All, Herriot...
...close of The Lord God Made Them All, Herriot recalls a colleague's old prediction: "I tell you this, James. There are great days ahead!" But the days have not been cloudless. Recognition has brought gawkers, who have altered his little home town (even the local stationer offers soft-center candies FROM THE TOWN OF THE VET). Fans have sometimes tracked him to the unpretentious fieldstone home he shares with his wife of 40 years. Joan Wight- Helen in the books- is a handsome, white-haired woman who does not suffer tourists lightly: "Alf is too kind. I send...