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FRIDAY: Twilight Zone. Agnes Moorehead is the lone and wordless star of one of the best Twilight Zone's ever. She plays an old farm woman doing lonely battle with invaders from another planet. Rod Serting script...
...White Nile by Alan Moorehead. 368 pages. Harper & Row. $15. Handsomely and intelligently illustrated in this reissue, this decade-old chronicle of the river, its sources and explorers stands up as fine travel history. The heroes, of course, are the eccentric British explorers of the last century: Burton, Speke, Baker, Livingstone. Through primitive lands, fierce populations and climates, and frequent pestilence, they hunted the Nile to its source in Lake Victoria-as Moorehead puts it, "a sunburst of Victorian courage...
CONSUELA LEE MOOREHEAD Hampton...
...Every year some 6,000 of them leave home, mostly for Europe and America, and even today a large percentage of the best-known Australians are expatriates. Among them: Soprano Joan Sutherland, Dancer Robert Helpmann, Actress Zoe Caldwell, Actors Leo McKern and Rod Taylor, Writers Morris West and Alan Moorehead, Artist Sidney Nolan...
...pleasant Sunday afternoon aboard H.M.S. Beagle, outward bound from Plymouth in 1831 on a scientific voyage around the world, Robert FitzRoy, her captain, would entertain his officers with readings from the Bible. A painting of such an event is one of the illustrations in Alan Moorehead's book. Depicted as a drab civilian among the scarlet naval persons present, the ship's naturalist, Charles Darwin, also clutches a Bible. The Beagle's Bibles contained an annotation dictated by the Anglican Archbishop Ussher, firmly stating that the Creation began promptly at 9 a.m., Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. After...