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City Sickness. Even the A.N.P.A.'s proud list of newcomers served as added proof that the nation's bigger cities do not nourish its healthiest newspapers. The 1961 crop of new dailies sprouted in such towns as Chesterton, Ind. (1960 pop. 4,335), Napoleon. Ohio (6,739), and Princeton, W. Va. (8,393). But in a city the size of Boston (697,197), Hearst's cost accountants found it expedient to merge the empire's morning and afternoon papers into a single tabloid, the Record-American...
...Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk her off to a nearby hayloft. The war with Napoleon was just what Paget's exuberant spirits needed, and he whipped the British cavalry into a crack fighting force. He was watching his men smash the French at Waterloo, standing next to the Duke of Wellington, when he was hit. "By God, sir, I've lost...
...original building in St. James's to "Versailles in the days of the Grand Monarch.'' It was a favorite haunt of politicians, and the Duke of Wellington instinctively repaired to Crockford's when he tried to form a new Cabinet in 1834. The future Napoleon III was holed up there when an emissary came to offer him the crown of Greece (he turned it down...
Back in 1802, when Napoleon still cherished dreams of conquering Britain, one of his engineers proposed the construction of a tunnel under the English Channel. The British never quite forgot Napoleon's designs, and for a century and a half afterward British governments vetoed the idea of a Channel tunnel as a threat to England's island security. But Britain's decision to join the European Common Market brings to an end the historic British policy of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. Last week, as British Transport Minister Ernest Marples flew to Paris to open the first...
Pauline Bonaparte (1780-1825), Napoleon's favorite sister: "I was always beautiful...