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This curious and amusing book is billed as a novel, but might just as accurately be called a memoir, a short-story collection or a religious tract. The 37-year-old author is the daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem...
Overweight Heir. The idea for the Suez Canal fired De Lesseps' imagination when he was 27 years old. Born into a French diplomatic family in 1805, De Lesseps had arrived in Alexandria as a consular official, and read a memoir on the Suez project written by one of Napoleon's aides during the occupation of Egypt 34 years before. He became a close friend of Said, the overweight heir to the Egyptian throne, by giving him free access to the consulate kitchen while the boy's militant father was trying to starve him into a semblance...
Except for an imaginative story by Jos. F. Fletcher, Jr., and a memoir by Francis B. Biddle '09, which was cribbed from a forthcoming book and which has as its only relation to either humor or Lampy the mention of Lampoon twice, there is absolutely nothing worth reading in it. Despite diligent seeking over the years, one cannot find a more fruitful way to waste time than spending an afternoon with Robb Sagendorph '22 ("Upon this occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Lampoon, we must not forget in our fond reminiscing aobut the past, that the present and future...
Freund's lecture, "Mr. Justice Brandeis: A Centennial Memoir," marked a University observance of the 100th anniversary of Brandeis's birth. President Pusey introduced the speaker...
...Montevideo waterfront. Russian Captain Alexei N. Solianik paid a courtesy visit. He was gravely received on the quarterdeck by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, got an illustrated lecture on the Glacier's part in Operation Deepfreeze, and a copy of R. B. Robertson's 1954 bestselling memoir. Of Whales and Men. On his way down the gangway, he invited the U.S. officers to pay a return visit...