Word: macaulay
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...events-Cabinet crises, diplomatic juggling, Queen Victoria's shrewish squabbles with her ministers. Its value: that Greville, a shrewd and accurate reporter, wrote from the inside, that most of the leading political and literary figures of the day-the Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Peel, the Princess de Lieven, Macaulay-were his friends. His scandals -such as the lustful Duke of Cumberland's attack on Lady Lyndhurst-are those with direct political repercussions...
...tenth annual International Sourdough Reunion. Swapping tall stories, but doing little whooping in the Multnomah bar (see cut), which, like other Oregon taprooms, serves no hard liquor, were such diverse sourdoughs as Alaska's Episcopal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, Henry Macaulay, first mayor of Dawson, Editor Frank J. Cotter of Seattle's Alaska Weekly, scores of old Yukon prospectors, storekeepers, mail clerks...
...WRITINGS OF E. M. FORSTER-Rose Macaulay-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Fourteen years after Forster's novel, A Passage To India, his slow-growing reputation has landed him solidly among the best contemporary English novelists. Author Macaulay makes a sensitive analysis of Forster's fiction, a weaker analysis of his critical writing, is both baffled and protective in dealing with his abandonment of fiction for fugitive social and literary criticism...
...named Charles Moody, 34-year-old son of a Southampton dock superintendent, "America's foremost British Butler," editor of Staff, secretary & treasurer of the Butlers Club, author of four books 'and 80 short stories. Professionally, however, the impeccable Mr. Moody is butler to Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay (formerly Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady of Manhattan and Manhasset, L. I.), wife of Eire's Minister to the Vatican...
Roosevelt: "My anchor is democracy, and more democracy. . . . I seek no change in the form of American Government. . . . It is of interest to read Macaulay's letter with care-for I find in it no reference to the improving of the living conditions of the poor, to the encouragement of better homes or greater wages, or steadier work...