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In the opening flashback to the eve of World War I, Nick Jenkins is a small boy living in his father's country house at Stonehurst. The servants and the horses are in their quarters. The chef is good. All seems secure. There are no local portents of doom...
Less expensive are The Seven(a haven for crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller. (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge...
>In Japan, tuberculosis researchers have developed a form of BCG vaccine that resists tropical heat. In a major test in Madras, WHO teams are treating TB victims with isoniazid (TIME, March 2, 1962) and are searching for another, equally inexpensive drug to combine with isoniazid to keep down resistant bacilli...
Back to Silver Tail. This time Father Hickey was past placating; he followed the customary course for desperate, rich parents, and bought his son a cadet's place with the East India Company. William was delighted; not knowing which regiment he would serve with, he bought one uniform of...
The Boy Scout. Menon's mind is a weird, eclectic mixture, containing more of Marx than of Gandhi, more of the Bloomsbury agnostic than the Hindu,† more 19th century radicalism than 20th century reality, all held together by arrogance. His feelings toward colonialism can be traced partly to...