Word: neale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DARK LADY, by Cothburn O'Neal (313 pp.; Crown; $3.50). A quaint "theory" about who really wrote Shakespeare's plays: it was a woman, Rosaline de Vere, illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Oxford. What with the prejudice of the day and Rose's being a poor defenseless bit of a thing, Actor Will obligingly markets the plays with the Globe Theatre and signs his name to them. Rose meanwhile dashes off a great many billets-doux in the form of very quotable sonnets to her true love, the Earl of Southampton. The book is clearly marked...
...decided that a little mountaineering might be a fine diversion. British-born Biochem ist Anthony Levy, 30, who had joined the fishing party at the last moment, had done a little snow climbing; two of the other three had no experience at all. University of Washington Medical Student Richard Neal Jr., 24, made the trek in smooth-soled shoes. Even so, all four of the amateur alpinists managed to claw their way to the icy summit of Middle Peak, second highest of the mountain's three...
...trip down, as the afternoon wore on, the climbers looked for short cuts. Rashly they scrambled down a 250-ft. cliff to a wide and treacherous snow field. Suddenly Neal disappeared. "I was walking on some wet rock," he remembered later, "when I slipped and fell into a 75-ft. crevasse." Hastily the climbers lowered a rope. The end caught in a cranny beyond Neal's reach. Ice water trickled into Neal's upturned face. Three-quarters of an hour passed and still he could not reach the rope. Then Tony Levy told the others to lower...
Next morning, with the aid of other climbers, Tony Levy's body was brought to the surface. In a Seattle hospital Dick Neal talked about the chance acquaintance who had saved his life: "He was a wonderful fellow. He said it was the most beautiful place he had ever seen; the kind of place he wouldn't mind dying...
Rebel Rose, by Ishbel Ross (Harper; $4), tells the fascinating story of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a Maryland beauty whose charm helped her into highest Washington society, and whose Dixie devotion landed her in jail as a Confederate spy. Her political mentor was Calhoun. "Wild Rose" picked up such valuable information that President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand...