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Died. Richard Hughes, 76, Welsh author best known for his 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica, a shocking fable about the evil that innocent children can do; of leukemia; in Merioneth, Wales. In the 33 years after A High Wind, a perennial bestseller, Hughes wrote only one novel before he began The Human Predicament, an ambitious trilogy of historical novels set between the World Wars. In The Fox in the Attic (1962), the first volume, England, Germany and the rise of Hitler are seen through the eyes of a young aristocratic liberal, who continues to observe and philosophize about...
...world that he was "Philip-just Philip" has not only acquired a hairbrush, but a sonorous list of ranks and titles-he is a Knight Commander of the Garter, the officially designated "First Gentleman of the Realm,"* His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth. Baron Greenwich, Field Marshal, Air Marshal and Fleet Admiral of the Royal Navy-and an allowance of pocket money from the privy purse sufficient ($112,000 yearly) to maintain his position in style...
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