Word: lytton
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...University of California at Los Angeles: the famed 12,000-volume Victorian literature collection once owned by British Publisher Michael Sadleir. Items: hundreds of rarer "three-decker" novels and yellowbacks by such oldtime bestsellers as "Captain" Frederick Marryat (Mr. Midshipman Easy), Mrs. Henry (East Lynne) Wood and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. ¶ New York CitySchool Superintendent William. Jansen announced that, beginning next fall, his high schools will have the most lifelike atomic-energy classes ever, complete with real radioisotopes imported from the Atomic Energy Commission. Next month New York teachers will go in for some futuramic training with the course...
...tears, Mother Nightingale had confided to a friend: "We are ducks who have hatched a wild swan." It was no swan, as Lytton Strachey noted in his famous biographical essay, "it was an eagle." But Strachey-could never fathom Miss Nightingale either, because he himself, a brilliant and heretical writer, put no stock in God or goodness. The best Strachey could do was to guess that Florence Nightingale was in the clutch of a demonic spirit...
...since a lot of people proved to be curious about romantic poets, Maurois soon had a hit on his hands. With this encouragement he turned out polished and readable, and somewhat empty lives of Disraeli, Byron and Dickens. Reread today, such Maurois works seem pretty thin; where the peerless Lytton (Eminent Victorians) Strachey was genuinely witty, Maurois was merely suave; where Strachey conveyed the quality and texture of a period, Maurois lacquered his work with the weary irony of the worldly boulevardier...
...version of The Lost Weekend, it was the dubbed-in songs of Theodora Lynch Getty that drove the dipsomaniac hero to drink. Last week, tall, easygoing Singer Theodora Getty, 30, wife of Oilman J. Paul Getty and granddaughter of Chicago's late, famed Clothier Henry C. Lytton, was trying to drive all Hollywood to drink something else-pure Hereford water from Deaf Smith County, Texas...
...columns when Poet Stephen Vincent Benét rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines...