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...DURABLE MONUMENT (312 pp.)-Admiral Sir W. M. James-Longmans, Green...
...Nelson's old flagship Victory) has tried to chart a sounder course. His seamanship may be better and his course truer, but when the voyage ends he has made the same port where other biographers have tied up. The Nelson who strides down the gangplanks of The Durable Monument is less legendary and more human than the Nelson of earlier biographies, but he is still the great captain of Britain's long and memorable naval history...
Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls...
...first daylight, young Mayor Theophilou was seized at home, dragged and kicked through the streets to Truman Square, backed up against a white marble monument. Said a rebel capitanos: "You've had a lot of experience lately making speeches to your American friends. Why not make one for us?" Theophilou straightened and started to answer: "I am mayor of this town and-" A spatter of bullets from rebel Tommy guns cut him off. For three days his body stayed there, propped against the bloodstained marble. Thus the lesson began...
...stood for Arthur Sears Henning, the Trib's softspoken, acid-penned Washington bureau chief. He had been in Washington since 1909 and had seemed as permanent as the Washington Monument. But six years ago, ailing Correspondent Henning had turned over the actual running of the Trib's eleven-man bureau to pudgy, bouncing Walter Trohan, 46. Last week, at 72, Henning turned over the title of bureau chief as well...